Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...elective system. It is the adding of another responsibility to those the undergraduates now sustain. Harvard University assumes that a student is a responsible being and acts accordingly. The year is not far enough advanced to test thoroughly this new experiment; but the trial gives promise of perfect success...
...Bardwell, an English mathematician, claims to have squared the circle after fifteen year's work. His solution is eight figures, which, in concrete shape, form a perfect cyclometer...
Professor Toy, of Cambridge, gave a scholarly paper on the Arabian dialect of Cairo, embodying the results of a study made of the subject during a residence in Egypt last winter. A very instructive paper was presented by Professor Frothingham, of Princeton, on Mohammedan education, whose most perfect developement is seen in the eighth, ninth and tenth centuries of our era. This development was largely due to impulses from without. The range of study was comprehensive and instruction was free. Professor Hall, of New York, gave an account of a Syriac manuscript containing a new text of the Traditions...
...Yale-Wesleyan championship game was played at New Haven, Saturday and resulted in a crushing defeat for Wesleyan. Yale's team work, running and dodging were perfect, and Wesleyan, though playing a stronger game than against Princeton and Harvard, were helpless. The teams were as follows...
...teams lined up sharply at 2.30 p. m. The weather was perfect and about five thousand persons witnessed the game. From the start Princeton began to force the ball down to Harvard's goal, and in thirteen minutes Cook made the first touchdown. No goal. Score 4 to 0 in Princeton's favor. After being put in play again Harvard gainen some ground by rushes by Porer and Sears, but a wild pass by Harding gave the ball to Ames of Princeton who punted. The play here began on both sides to be rough. The Princeton rush line were again...