Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...work of Mahan was easily the feature of the game. Aside from a squally first inning, he exhibited perfect control, together with speed and a good assortment of curves. In the last eight innings only 25 Bates men went to the plate, and only two hit safely during the entire game...
...other hand, Frye was at his best and had the visitors at his mercy throughout the entire game. He allowed but two hits and his control was almost perfect, only one base on balls being given. Waterman caught his first game on the University team in gilt-edged manner and to him and Frye go the greatest credit for yesterday's victory. The two other new men Nash and Fripp gave abundant evidence that the two po- sitions made vacant by graduation last year will be well taken care of this season...
...have one or two personal friends in the insurance business, each of whom I can vouch for as being a perfect gentleman and a clear-headed business man. One in particular is incidentally a young Harvard graduate with a cum laude on his sheepskin, who to my knowledge is not given to making "cringing advances" nor to talking to hear himself talk. Therefore, although in no way implicated myself, I feel called upon to object mildly to the polemic against insurance men as a class, which recently appeared in the CRIMSON. This ill-considered letter leads one to suspect that...
...result is inevitable, that is, the effect of producing a more serious scientific attitude toward the work. The student who chooses this Division will be presumed to have made the choice with serious intent to perfect himself in that line. The student who chose that work because he had to concentrate in something may well feel he is getting more than he bargained for. This is not a criticism; the result-to make study in that division more in the way of laboratory work, to lift it out of the region of inconsequent eclectic undergraduate education may be more serious...
Nevertheless Moliere's writings had a far-reaching influence upon the doctrines of contemporary medical men, and all his ideas in this respect have triumphed. Moliere dared to attack, even the most famous doctors and in almost all cases he showed that with perfect reasoning they were apt to base their theories on false diagnoses. Moliere knew human nature and depicted it truthfully and it was through this power combined with his hatred of the doctors and their methods, that Moliere did so much to raise the science of medicine and save humanity from contemporary abuses...