Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...poetical races and epochs this turn for style is peculiarly observable; and perhaps it is only on condition of having this somewhat heightened and difficult manner, so different from the plain manner of prose, that poetry gets the privilege of being loosed, at its best moments, into that perfectly simple, limpid style, which is the supreme style of all, but the simplicity of which is still not the simplicity of prose. The simplicity of Menander's style is the simplicity of prose, and is the same kind of simplicity as that which Goethe's style, in the passage which...
There are some translations which have almost the merit of original works, like Sir Thomas Urquhart's of Rabelais, for instance, but it is almost impossible that any foreigner should acquire that perfect intimacy with the niceties of a language which is essential to the thorough comprehension of an author and especially a poet. Both Tieck and Schlegal have mined very deep in the genius of Shakespeare, of his power and art they were among the first to form an adequate conception, and yet in their translation, where Macbeth says: "Here on this bank and shoal of Time," they give...
When in the world of nature we see the perfect working of the law of the conservation of energy, how no atom of matter, no particle of energy can ever be destroyed or lost, is it natural to suppose that in the spiritual world a spirit that has been developing for many years, that is the result of immeasurable labor and the effect of many influences can all be destroyed and blotted out of existence by the blow of a dagger? Is it not rather natural that what is so infinitely more valuable in the sight of God than...
...high jump formed a perfect ending to the meeting. All of the eleven entries contested, and the jumping was of the higest order. M. F. Sweeney of the Xavier Athletic Club, was scratch. The other outside entries were P. C. Stingel of Cambridge, and W. D. Rising of the Newton A. A. J. L. Bremer '96, Rising and E. H. Clark '96, dropped out at 5ft. 6in.; H. M. Wheelwright '94, at 5ft. 7 1-2in.; G. C. Chaney '94, at 5ft. 8 3-4in.; S. M. Merrill '94, at 5ft. 9 1-2in.; W. E. Putnam...
...have only the vaguest ideas as to the regulations that exist. We do not take the pains to familiarize ourselves with the regulations as they are, but accept, instead, various statements passed on from class to class. Very often students will even go to the college office and, with perfect sincerity, cite regulations which have nothing but a mythical existence...