Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...results of the annual University handicap track games which were held on Soldiers Field on yesterday afternoon were most satisfactory for this time of the year. The weather-conditions were perfect for running and in a measure contributed towards the good performances in several of the events. Although the results of many events were encouraging, great weakness was shown in others, especially the field events, excepting the shot put, in which F. H. Schoenfuss '04, established a new University record, with a put of 44 ft., 1 1-2 in. The scratch men did well, but were forced to fight...
...whole, the trip was fairly successful. The men were enabled to get a week of good practice, and were aided in their work by perfect weather conditions. Only in a few cases was any improvement shown in fielding, which was, nevertheless, for the most part, fast and accurate. In batting, there were some cases of individual improvement, but as a whole, the team did not bunch their hits to advantage. The most evident and universal weakness, however was the bunting, which was at no time satisfactory. Poor base-running was another conspicuous fault in the work of the team...
...temporarily misplaced by one of the students, but thorough search and inquiry has failed to discover them and it is now evident that the drawings have been stolen. The loss is the more to be regretted as the measures necessary to protect the other drawings will make impossible the perfect freedom of access to the collections which has been permitted hitherto...
...neighborhood of, the shrine is very interesting, containing as it does the famous theatre of Epidaurus. The temple itself is one of the most perfect examples of its period now standing. A detailed restoration has been worked out by two Frenchmen, who have worked both from the ruins themselves and from the many references to the shrine in the writings of Pausanias and others...
...evident that Victor Hugo was not a perfect character, and his limitations are apparent to all who have read his works. His love of the theatrical, his tendency to exaggerate and his colossal egotism lend an air of Ialsity to his writings; he deals too much in contrasts and in superlatives. But his motive is good and it is in reality the intensity of his enthusiasm which leads him to over-statement. This exaggerative tendency, though it results sometimes in an undesirable sentimentalism, in the main enhances the ethical value of Hugo's work...