Word: perfection
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Furthermore, once this course was established and students had received the benefits from it, they would doubtless desire to take up higher courses of the same nature, so that they could inter-come the difficulties and perfect themselves in the language. In French and German they have such courses, which enable them to write and speak those languages in the most satisfactory manner; hence Spanish students, who find a speaking knowledge of the language of as much, if not of more value than French, should enjoy the same privileges as those in the French Department. A. A. CAPOTOSTO...
...Harvard had filled the living room and the balconies above it when Mr. Charles Francis Adams '56, after a hearty personal tribute to Major Higginson, introduced President Eliot. President Eliot spoke in detail of the purposes of the Union, and of its possibilities in bringing together under conditions of perfect equality all men in the University, of whatever associations and interests. Malcolm Donald '99, following President Eliot, spoke of the Union and its future from the standpoint of the undergraduate. C. Warren '89 read a poem to the Union, and J. H. Hyde '98 spoke of the early growth...
...sudden acquisition of almost perfect freedom in every particular offers great opportunities, although there may be involved the risk of sin. It is said that virtue is possible only when the risk of vice or sin goes with it, but it must be remembered that experience of sin is an entirely different matter from the risk...
Simply from a literary point of view the Bible is a book of almost unrivalled beauty. "Let men who wish to perfect their literary style study the Bible"--the committee on entrance examinations to colleges has recommended. The highest oratory of our time and of the centuries before has been full of direct or indirect quotations and similes from the Bible...
...small number this year is not considered unsatisfactory, as this is the first year under the new rule. Now that a new and perfect equipment is secured to the Medical School through the gift of Mr. Morgan, there is every reason to suppose that each succeeding class will increase greatly in numbers...