Word: ablest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Hospital last Saturday evening. Mr. Smith contracted the prevailing "grip," which attacked a chronic weakness and necessitated an operation; the shock was too great and death resulted. Mr. Smith's brother arrived on Friday night and will take the body to Pittsburg Pa. The deceased was one of the ablest men in the first year L. S., and a member of the Langdell Law Club. During his short residence in Cambridge Mr. Smith had impressed those who came in contact with him as a man of earnest purpose and sterling character. He was twenty-four years...
...order that the Harvard Union may secure its ablest talent to represent the society at Yale, the management have decided to have a debate on the evening when the speakers are chosen. This debate will be open to all members of the Union only, and the showing made by the speakers then will largely determine the selection of the candidates. It is understood that Yale is making every effort to be represented by the best speakers available. It is earnestly to be desired that all interested in the matter will be present. That the debate may be somewhat extemporary...
...headquarters in the smoking rooms at either end of the car and from there, issued their challenges. The morning was taken up with the initiation of members which proved intensely interesting. Immediately after dinner there was a joint debate on an important question of the day. Three of the ablest speakers from either side were chosen to represent the clubs and the battle raged for nearly half an hour. The speeches were well delivered, especially the three for the Hoodoo side, but the judges, with exceeding ill taste, decided two to one for the Wah Hoos. Later in the afternoon...
...Harvard Reform Club (the new name for the reorganized Free Wool Club) aims to bring before the college the ablest speakers interested in the cause of good government and general political reform from both of the great polical parties...
...excellent sketch that Mr. Hannay gives of the exiled "Loyalists," that band of men opposed to the colonies in the Revolutionary war, whose banishment has passed with but scant notice and has evoked very little sympathy, and in whose ranks were included some of the brightest and ablest minds in the thirteen colonies; and the author regrets that they were all banished for he thinks it was a loss to the country. "Early Dorchester," will have a special attraction for Boston men as considerable personal history is given in Mrs. Whitman's article, especially of the Minot and Eliot families...