Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...race was rowed about six o'clock under perfect weather conditions. At the start the Cornell boat caught the water first and shot ahead, and settled down into a 32 stroke. The University crew pulled up slightly at the half-mile, rowing 29 strokes to the minute. At the mile, however, Cornell was half a length of open water in the lead and had lowered the stroke to 30. The University crew was rowing...
...story of Adam which states that man was originally perfect, but degenerated, has been cast aside by scientists, who declare that man is the end, and the one far-off event, toward which nature has been steadily moving--the heir of all the ages. During the past forty years biological research has caused a revolution in human thought--has even changed the mind of man. Those who have lived through the bitter changed of fierce extremes in the war between science and religion compare with sorrow the times gone by, when faith was diversified by doubt, with the present, when...
...left on bases, three at second and one at third. Clarkson, who was in the box for the first time since the southern trip, pitched his usual brilliant game and allowed only one hit and two bases on balls, striking out eleven men. Stephenson, behind the bat, made two perfect throws to second, and dropped the ball on the third strike twice, both times recovering in time to put the man out at first. The Williams team made eight errors, to which, either directly or indirectly, four of Harvard's runs were...
Practice of the University team yesterday afternoon was discouraging, in spite of the almost perfect weather conditions. The batting was fairly good, but this was in part due to the fact that Jackson and Castle, the usual substitute pitchers, were not used. The fielding, particularly that of the infield, was loose and unsteady. Stephenson was again tried at second base, but was still somewhat uncertain, his chief fault being slowness in starting...
...Ayres 02 will speak in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock on "Buddhist Burma," dealing with some of the characteristics of the Burmese people, and their religion and social system. Burmese society approaches more closely to a perfect democracy than any other civilization in the world, and some of its aspects suggest and help to explain the real differences between the Eastern and Western points of view...