Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...deciding games of the round robin of the scrub baseball series will be played this afternoon at 4 o'clock. On the Freshman diamond the Prickly Heats, who have so far maintained a perfect record, will play the Bush Leaguers, who stand third in the series. The Nine Muses, who are second, will play the Moulin Rouges on the Second team diamond. If the Prickly Heats win from the Bush Leaguers, they will receive the cups, while if the Bush Leaguers win, the previous games, which have been postponed, will have to be played...
...third inning Ballin beat out a perfect bunt along the third base line. He stole second a minute later and scored on Warwick's hit to centre field. The two men following struck out and Sterrett raised a foul fly to Lanigan...
...came to perfect your mental powers, to acquire a vigorous and strong mind, then in order that you may do this, you must begin at the beginning; and in beginning you must learn to discriminate between the things eternal and the things temporary. In the latter you may think I am speaking of journalism, but I am not. The nearest I ever came to journalism was to be asked to be a co-editor of a paper that did not exist. I replied I did not think...
...education that is not dependent on books or on works of art; but we persistently throw away much of what they offer by pursuing them in the wrong spirit. To my thinking, the sport most in need of reform now is not football (though that is far from perfect), but baseball. It is hard to conceive of anything meaner than tripping an adversary as he runs past a base, or "rattling" a batsman with derisive language poured into his ear by the catcher, or "breaking up" a pitcher and a visiting team by that organized cheering which is designed...
...claims that the new system is perfect. It is an attempt to construct a positive system of education upon definite principles, and a system that is well fitted to the traditions of Harvard College because it leaves the initiative with the student himself. The essence of the system is that it holds up before a student a positive standard of education, and the setting up of that standard alone is of inestimable value. So long as he is told that any sixteen courses are, in the opinion of the college authorities, equivalent to any others, it is natural that...