Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...gymnasium and the prescription of physical exercise which shall contribute to health and strength. The time is coming when we will pay experts to keep us well as we now pay physicians to make us well. There is nothing in the law of intellectual activity that need obstruct perfect health. Higher education should conserve good health...
...weather was almost perfect, as the air was very warm and there...
...Whitman realized that nature is not perfect, and that right is the only really strong thing in the world...
...many years ago this statement might have been made with perfect justice, but today it is too sweeping an assertion to be perfectly true, though it still holds good with regard to several of the larger universities. At Harvard there is undoubtedly still a faculty supervision of athletics but it is quite distinct from official control. The active government of athletics at this University is in the hands of the Athletic Committee, of which three out of nine members are also members of the Faculty. This committee has for several years had complete charge of the athletic interests here...
...keynote of these verses, Bishop Vincent said, is "God our Saviour," just as the keynote-the theme of themes of the Book of books is Salvation. Salvation is a state of perfect moral health, and of perfect adjustment to the spiritual world of which we are a part. Just as a child need not understand the complexity of electricity in order to turn on a light by merely moving a switch, so we need not know the philosophy of salvation to be saved. Salvation is possible and effective (through Christ); it is a reality...