Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...leader must be in perfect touch with the whole universe and must look at life largely. The only way of avoiding the confusion which multiplicity of interests brings is to have a single controlling interest which will unify diverging issues. This central motive will, consciously or unconsciously, determine the color or our activities and the direction of our purposes. No man can serve two interests, and if at any time a man seems to be under the control of two opposite motives it is always the case that those motives are warring with each other and sooner or later...
...Marionettes," R. Altrocchi has cleverly adapted from the Neapolitan of Trilussa the description of a box of puppets after the play is over. The incongruity of the masquerade of dialect words and phra67ses in the most exquisite of literary forms humorously suggests the world of the marionettes, and the perfect equality and fraternity that prevail in the box symbolize the artificiality of social distinctions. This point is obscured, however, by the simile "like slaughtered sheep"; nor is it, strictly speaking, the "show" that brings beggars "astraddle of the guys what's got the dough." I question also whether the dialect...
...Harvard's excellent showing was an improvement in team work. Individually, the team is very strong, but until Saturday team work had been lacking. Yale did its best work on line plays. They failed to make a single successful forward pass, but the team work was well nigh perfect. Captain Kilpatrick at left halfback and Mersereau at right tackle were in every play for Yale and, together with Hopkins, were the stars of the team...
...Yale team worked the forward pass more advantageously than their opponents, and the defense was very nearly perfect. Coy and T. Jones did the best work for Yale, while the West Point ends, Johnson, Stearns, and Erwin, excelled for the Army...
...University is to be congratulated on the splendid gift of Massachusetts woodland which adds an almost perfect equipment to the present organization of the Division of Forestry. Coming at a time when the Graduate School of Applied Science is taking its bold but confident stand for a better system of professional education in applied science than the community has yet known, this generous gift, mainly the contribution of a young Harvard graduate, will do a great deal not only to promote Forestry but also to strengthen the position of the School of Applied Science throughout the country...