Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...word have I altered in this rhetorically perfect specimen of composition; not a comma did I take away or add. Whatever "the grounds" may be which the Echo has for "surmising," until it is kind enough to state these "grounds," in print, it has no business to "surmise." For the present, it is sufficient to say, in order to prove the true value of such "surmising," that the course referred to is Latin II., and that the instructor in question is no other than Professor Greenough. We have witnessed many rude, unpardonable assaults of injudicious hotheads upon instructors, but that...
...publish in another column a letter from a correspondent concerning a recent editorial article in the Harvard Echo, - a letter which we do not think is open to the charge of misrepresentation or malicious exaggeration. The Echo has a perfect right to criticise, in a courteous manner, any line of conduct that seems unjust; but it has no right whatsoever to insult an instructor who may have displeased some portion of the men in his elective. Both the matter and the spirit of the article in question call for the severest reproof from all who have any desire that...
SHARP. No, I'm a perfect dunce at languages...
Though the Juniors have trained well, they are by no means perfect. Two, three, and five sliver out; six and two feather unevenly with the rest of the crew. One fails to keep his arms or back stiff, and to get his oar out on full reach; three is inclined to bucket, and does n't swing straight; five fails in reach; six's hands trouble him on the catch; seven does n't shoot quick enough or hold his hands tight; and eight is apt to overreach. All sliver out, bucket badly, and lack rhythm in movement...
Although, by Jove! I wrote a perfect book...