Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...were completed Saturday are now ready for use, making a total of 43 courts on Jarvis and Holmes Fields available daily between 7 o'clock in the morning and 6 o'clock at night. Although the new courts are softer than the old ones, they will probably be in perfect condition after two or three weeks...
...Graduates' performance last evening was thoroughly successful and produced uproarious laughter. The play was carried through without a break and with unceasing action and spirit. Exceptionally perfect pronunciation, characteristic costumes and effective setting maintained a convincing German atmosphere...
...interested from the personal or subjective pleasure which they realize from their work; others are drawn into philanthropy by a sense of social obligation and civic pride. Earnest social work with our fellowmen should give us a practical knowledge of social conditions, and enable us to exercise a more perfect judgment in choosing the suitable remedies...
...enter the parade simply as Harvard men and gentlemen, and not depend on dressing themselves up like monkeys to distinguish their party in the line of march? If it is thought that a uniform of some sort is desirable, the ordinary black caps and gowns could be worn with perfect propriety, for the Harvard usage permits undergraduates to wear academic costume without hoods. For my part, I should be glad to place at your disposal two sets of caps and gowns, and I am sure there are a thousand graduates who would do the same. The dollar gowns...
Schiller lived at a time when Germany was being torn gradually to pieces by the onslaught of Napoleonic imperialism. A few great men, notably Kant, Goethe and Schiller, remained to re-awaken the national soul. Schiller strove to create perfect natures by the perfection of every quality given us, and by the conception of art as the highest of human activities. The present times, with their material, worldly tendencies, the merging of the souls of individuals into soulless machines, offer a splendid mission for Schiller's conception of art; and that art would be a tower of strength...