Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...rule is known will be raced with regular time allowance. Other boats will be raced with some handicap system, probably based on overall length. Prizes are offered in each class and second prizes for those classes where there are four or more starters. In order that the committee may perfect its handicapping system all entries must be handed in writing to C. Fry, Dunster 42, before next Wednesday...
While the Faculty of the present day are the most perfect instructors, it is supposed that some leadership, of a supreme order, might be of service to Harvard, and through Harvard to the country. Older graduates remember, gratefully, the good they gained from James Russell Lowell, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Asa Gray, Louis Agassiz, and other leaders of men, who were lecturers, and the regret they felt that Harvard did not employ John Fiske, J. H. Choate, J. C. Carter, George Bancroft, Francis Parkman, J. L. Motley, Ralph Waldo Emerson, W. H. Prescott, and others like them, as regular lecturers...
...long as there are proctors in the examination-room there will always be a certain number of morally or mentally incapable men who will maintain that they have a perfect right to cheat if the proctor does not see them. The proctor is there to keep them from cheating, but if he is not quick enough to stop them they have used a legitimate right, they say. If the honor system were instituted at Harvard it would immediately change the present individual feeling against dishonesty, to an irresistible public spirit against it, as it has at Princeton and Williams...
Without maintaining that the Chapel is perfect in every respect or that the student attendance is as large as it should be (certainly, too few men go regularly on week-day mornings), we believe that the Advocate's indictment is more severe than the facts of the case warrant. For example, the attendance figures for last year show an average on Sunday morning of 171 students and 168 others; a total of 339. This year the average has been: students, 265; others, 290; a total of 555. Apparently, then, the Chapel is not a decaying institution as far as attendance...
There is no unnecessary roughness in soccer for cleverness depends not on butting into one another but upon taking the ball away from an opponent with the least bodily contact. The game necessitates athletic sense, perfect physical condition, agility, speed, a cool head, and a calm temper. Men of any size or weight can play this game. Agility, however, is indispensable, for the ball is propelled by every part of the body, except the arms and hands, which makes skillful use of the head and of both feet necessary. When the scientific control of the ball has been mastered, soccer...