Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...officers of the college have a perfect right to their opinions, and may justly exclude any or all speakers of whom they disapprove. Undergraduates, likewise, are free to hold their own ideas in so far as they do no harm to the regulations of the Faculty and the name of Harvard College. For this reason the Union is invaluable as a place where they may hear whomever they wish to hear, may hold meetings on a common footing, and debate on whatever questions they may choose...
...play, had little trouble in maneuvering past the Tiger defence to score six times, while in the Harvard game Wylde was only called upon to make two difficult stops--14 in all--from the sticks of Princeton's vanquishers. In that game Coach Winsor's men gave an almost perfect exhibition of defensive hockey...
...gesture with a lightness of touch that rivaled even Nijinsky, the famous Russian cheer leader. I have seen the Michigan leader, apparently boxed by substitutes on the side lines, leap high into the air and with a deft gesture of the index finger draw from his cheering section a perfect salvo, sometimes two salvi, of applause. I have seen him handle the Michigan "locomotive," a clumsy oratorio at best, with a deftness of forearm movement and an utter absence of physical effort which transformed it into a veritable octavo volume of sound with deckled edges...
...great majority of people have to compile, to perfect, or to work out the ideas or acts of the pioneers. But there are always people who might be pioneers if they exerted the will, or if circumstances opened the way. The adventurers who mean progress are coming more and more from the colleges. Hence humanity and progress are calling to youth, especially those aided by a college education, to become leaders. Michigan Daily...
...remains for the coaches and players to perfect the offensive machinery for its work against Brown and Yale. For several years past the Harvard coaches have decided to play a substitute team against whichever eleven it players on the Saturday preceding the Yale game. What the policy this year will be is still unsettle, although there is but very little to choose between the first eleven and the first-string substitutes. In fact, in all the games up to date, the substitutes have acquitted themselves fully as well as the first team...