Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...rules is intended. Yale, Princeton, and the university simply want to play one another and have found it of great advantage to have the same set of rules. By attempting to make the union close is meant not making it in the least exclusive but merely attaining more perfect co-operation for mutual benefit. The purpose of the triangular arrangement is not to attempt to dictate rules but to agree to certain regulations which are peculiarly applicable to the three universities. Through long years of association with Yale and Princeton in athletic contests, especially with Yale, greater interest is aroused...
...likely to be even so slightly broken. Undoubtedly the League of Nations is a subject worthy of the most careful consideration. In theory, it would appear to be an admirable means to keep the peace in the future, and it may well be as practicable as it is perfect in theory. The very best motives lay behind it. Discussion of this now, however, is not making peace with Germany and that, above all, is what every nation wants...
...last rites in honor of Theodore Roosevelt will not prevent the American people from standing as one great mourning family at the dead chieftain's bier today. The tributes that have been paid to him by the great and little of the nation--of all nations--are of perfect sincerity, and sometimes of a degree of emotion that almost chokes their utterance, but all are inadequate, all seem commonplace in the light of his own greatness, which has not died with him, which cannot fade from the earth, and which will, with time, inspire our orators and our poets...
...numerour Industrial concerns which the government has seen fit to take from private hands as a purely emergency measure, should be returned to their owners with due compensation. But in the case of various public service monopolies which are now operated by the government as a means of insuring perfect coordination in the management of a widespread system the question of restoration calls for somewhat more deliberation...
...musical part of the festivities, will be present tonight and lead the singing himself. All three choruses will meet together for a short period of practice after which they will adjourn to their own common rooms for separate singing. As this is the last opportunity for the choruses to perfect their singing, it is essential that a full number should be present from each building...