Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Captain Gray was the only entrant to mark-up a perfect score, but three 98 cards in a row served, to lift the average to a winning level. The yearlings shot as follows...
...cannot read without a sense of appreciation that Mr. Howe has approached his task in that perfect spirit of tribute which can immortalize without exaggerating. His purpose has been not only to commemorate these boy-men, but to picture for us the traits of boyhood, those facets of character which make us see the boy in the man, and in the boy judge what the man would have been--had there been only time. The ideals of the writer are the ideals which led the men of whom he writes, the ideals we like to claim as cherished by Harvard...
...Coakley a five-yard advantage over J. A. McCarthy '22. McCarthy showed his gameness by sticking at his opponents heels, finally, on the last lap passing him and starting J. W. Burke '23, anchor-man for the University, three yards ahead of V. F. Shem Burke, showing perfect form and a world of power, ran like a machine, steadily pulling ahead of his man until at the finish he clinched the race with a ten-yard lead...
...mistaken? There are students who rebel at certain literary courses which occur in the engineering curriculum, not realizing that such courses are meant to broaden their education. They do not realize that it is the broad-minded man who gets the highest position, not merely the technically perfect man; it is the man who can meet and understand every type of problem, who can talk with men in every position, who can appreciate the accomplishments of the world around him, and above all who is ready to receive and accept improvements and new ideas...
...that the treaty is perfect; there are still a few things that remain to be done. But the unparalleled good feeling and spirit of conciliation which has made itself manifest is indeed cheering to those who have the future of the world at heart. Shantung returned to China after twenty-three years, the cessation of preparations for war in the Pacic, the naval holiday, an agreement relative to the use of poison gas and submarines these are some of the things which the present Conference has accomplished. What wonder then, that there is such a prevalent feeling of "bien-etre...