Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...eleven scored four touchdowns and one goal from the field in twenty-three minutes play. There were few fumbles by the first eleven, but many by the second. The tackling in general was poor and the men had no success in following the ball. Great effort was made to perfect team play which resulted in good pushing in the line plays. As Hallowell was slightly injured and Campbell did not go into the line-up, the work of the ends was weak. The kicking by Sawin, however, was good, especially a pretty goal from the field. Reid also was kept...
...other individual can express. When a lover loves, he has but one object of his affections; yet in praising this object, he describes a type. Does he love a class of women or a single woman? If another had the same face, voice and inward sentiment as the one "perfect Woman," would he love both? If he did, he would have neither true love nor true loyalty, which, if he possessed, would hold him faithful to his one ideal. We may hold an idea in common with another being and we are linked to that being. God is linked...
...Club has adopted a system of silver badges in the form of birds. They are of three grades: expert, first class, and second class. In order to obtain the grade of expert a perfect score of 25 must be shot. Two scores of 15 straight entitle the candidate to the first class grade, and three scores of 20 out of 25 qualify for the second class. Yesterday Blake, Mallinckrodt and Phelps won the second grade medals...
...Pyne's missing a try with both brassy and mashie. Pyne went over the green on his approach to the eleventh and Averill won again, 5-6. Averill won the twelfth, 3-4, driving within two yards of the cup. The thirteenth hole was halved in six. By a perfect four, Averill won the fourteenth, and was then two up. The fifteenth hole was halved in five, and the sixteenth in six. Averill won the seventeenth, 5-6, as Pyne made a poor shot from the woods for his third. The players halved the honor hole in a far three...
...sometimes gained on the play, it was in no sense effective. Campbell and Hallowell, although they played well at times, allowed the second eleven backs to get past them twice for runs of twenty or thirty yards. Except for these runs, the defensive work of the first eleven was perfect...