Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Myrtle St., Boston.ENGLISH BULLDOG. - Just imported per S. S. "Carlisle City" (Furness Line), that High Class Bull Bitch, "Petrina" (registered and pedigree), white with brindle mark on head, by Champion "Tinker," out of Nettle. Grand shoulders, enormous scull, perfect body, weight 41 lbs., excellent mother, affectionate, safe, quiet, clean, will make good breeder. She combines the blood of Champion "Alaric" (King Orry's Grandfather), Champion "Monarch," "Spartan," Crib and Venice. The above is a kennel companion to "Bayswater Nell," now the property of Newton Kennels. Inspection invited. Apply to Morse's Stable, 1 Dunster St., Cambridge...
...long as one team plays in secret, it will of course be necessary for their rivals to do the same. The 'varsity has need of all the time there is left before the Yale game to perfect its new plays, and the college must be patient. What we want to warn men here against is the possibility of falling into such a frame of mind that they may forget that the football team represents all Harvard and is not a sort of secret society. None of us care to have Harvard outdone in cheering at Springfield, but unless...
...been made clear for further development in the facilities of the CRIMSON. A more careful division of labor made desirable an enlargement of quarters, and to meet this need five rooms have been secured for the next year. Numerous improvements concerned with matters of detail, will be made to perfect the reports of local Harvard news, and the New England Associated Press is to furnish us in the future with full telegraphic accounts of news in other colleges...
...mountain ranges, and of the climatic diversity of the eastern and western sides of continents. In just the same way, as the range of our study of literature widens, and the terra incognita diminishes to a few obscure points here and there, we are enabled to construct a tolerably perfect map of the globe of intellectual achievement and adventure and to color its boundaries, if only theoretically, yet with some approach to accuracy in the distinction of certain primary characteristics. In these lectures, it has been my desire, however inadequately in the nature of things I have been able...
...told that perfection of form can be learned only of the Greeks, and it is certainly true that many among them attained to, or developed out of some hereditary germ of aptitude, a sense of proportion and of the helpful relation of parts to the whole organism which other races mostly grope after in vain. Spenser, in the enthusiasm of his new Platonism, tells us that "Soul is form,and doth the body make," and no doubt this is true of the highest artistic genius. Form without soul, the most obsequious observance of the unities, the most perfect a priori...