Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...course is the success which it promises to be, it will probably become permanently established and the college will gradually purchase a sufficient number of instruments to conduct it with perfect efficiency...
...great principles are first, the necessity of life; second, obedience. These are constantly denied. Men are afraid of too much life, and each soul asserts itself against obedience. In the perfect world of which we dream there will be two elements, life and obedience...
...Leighton Parks followed Dr. Brooks, speaking from the text "O sing unto the Lord a new song." The perfect religious man. said Dr. Parks, in perfect accord with the Lord, to grow in harmony with God, and to keep others, is worth the trying for every son of man. Each man is here with his own religious traditions, gotten in his family connections. What is one to do with this tradition? Here at Harvard other traditions are heard, and then will come the discord, and so it will be necessary to sing a new and better song. The greatest benefit...
...crew is improving rapidly from day to day, and it seems probable that it may make a fair showing in the race a week from next Friday. Yale has a tremendously powerful crew that rows with perfect watermanship. But with all the advantages that Yale has, the Harvard crew does not feel discouraged and will do its best to keep Yale busy for the whole four miles...
...method the student is obliged to write a large part of his examination in the hot, noon hours. He has also the drawback of being crowded in with a lot of other men who are also annoyed and made nervous by the excessive heat. If our buildings had a perfect system of ventilation the case might not be so bad. As it is, however, there seems to be only one solution to the difficulty; and that is to set the hour for the examinations earlier and thus avoid the heated hours of the middle...