Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...usual, both sides are at fault. The graduates of other colleges who are present have a perfect right to remain seated and to continue eating while the "loyal sons of Harvard" stand. True, courtesy might lead them to rise out of sympathy with the rest, but that cannot be demanded. Certainly any reprisal in the way of bread throwing by the resentful enthusiast on his feet is highly out of place. At least let there be courtesy on our side...
...Freshman hockey team met with its first defeat of the season, Saturday afternoon at Concord, N. H., when St. Paul's School defeated them, 4 to 0 in a fast game. St. Paul's School showed almost perfect team-play in which Brune and Henriques excelled, while the Freshmen, individually fast, did not work together. Morgan, Townsend and Baker excelled. FRESHMEN. ST. PAUL'S. Baker, Rice, l.w. r.w., Montgomery Fisher, Kissel, l.c. r.c., Henriques Townsend, r.c. l.c., Brune, Connover Baldwin, r.w. l.w., Morgan, Gold Morgan, c.p. c.p., Young Harris, p. p., Schrieber Wylde, g. g., Stuart...
...realize that he has everything to lose and nothing to gain. However, we admire a good loser and will say unqualifiedly that all the members of the board of our foolish contemporary are good losers. It is merely the adaptation of that old adage that practice makes perfect...
...Harvard, for more than a generation, has prided itself justly on the perfect freedom of the individual enjoyed by everyone within its walls, whether students or members of the Faculty. This spirit of individualism is very much in evidence in every part of the University, whether in the Yard, the dormitories, or the Harvard Union. In every classroom one becomes immediately connections of an atmosphere of strong, independent thought, of a critical, analytical spirit of challenge, of an almost self-assertive pride of unshackled, fearless, intellectual freedom. The effect of this atmosphere is of course most stimulating. Many...
...tutoring to be done, it is, desirable that as much as possible, be done by students, and that it be done directly, with no commissions to middleman, inasmuch as it costs the student--who really does the work in any case--nothing. But it lacks the funds to perfect the system of notes, formulas, memory-aids and the whole machine-shop of tutorial pills and capsules; and therefore lacks the prestige of other establishments. Each additional man who turns to it for a tutoring place, will help himself financially, and the Secretary in University 5 to more adequate supplies. Each...