Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...catalogue shows that we have 2,271 men from whom to select a crew, while Yale has 1,645. With an advantage of over 27 per cent. we have at least as good a chance to pick a crew physically perfect as has Yale. I have been told by recent Harvard graduates that while at Yale the best men get on the crew, at Harvard a seat in the boat is largely the result of social or society finesse. If this be true, while I doubt it, it ought to be stopped. Of course of two equally good oars...
...Love is the fulfilling of the Law." Perhaps one of the greatest advances made in this century is the substitution for doctrines of selfishness prevalent ninety years ago, the generous systems of today of reward and punishment of the lower classes of society, and the nearer approach to a perfect fulfillment...
...tone the quicker of these vibrations are always an integral number of times as fast as the slowest, (which is also generally the strongest). In others the quicker rates are in general fractional multiples of the slowest. To the latter class belong instruments like bells and drums giving less perfect notes; the former class including all musical instruments properly so called. The cause of this aesthetic distinction Helmboltz found in the fact that in notes with fractional overtones there is always interference between the various pitches constituting the total mass of sound, while in notes of the integral class this...
...plan for the organization of Chicago University would afford more perfect division of branches of instruction and a greater extension of the functions of a university than exists in any. American institution. Some of the greatest departures from the ordinary methods appear to be based on German notions. Such are the provisions that no specific course, time, or residence shall be required for a degree. The theory of giving the students the greatest possible scope for individual work will also be followed in the adoption of the seminary system of lecture rooms. The provision for publishing the results of research...
Some people cannot believe that they are not perfect if they are not constantly informed of their shortcomings. I remember a girl whose charms were most conspicuous for their absence who once remarked, "How pretty I am!" "What makes you think so?" inquired a hearer. "Oh," replied she, "no one ever told me I was ugly...