Word: best
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Forest medal at Yale for the best oration was yesterday awarded to Louis Judson Swinburne, of Albany...
...there is only one other way in which a Class-Day romance can end, and that is the best...
...exercises were ended by the singing of the class ode, which was gracefully written by Mr. E. C. Perkins, of Boston. As a whole, the literary exercises of the Class of '79 were by far the best that have been given by any class at Harvard for many years, - certainly the best that have been heard by any one who is at present a student in the University. They were worthy of the class...
...leetle farther along the Riviera. The truth is, that a little pecuniary transaction took place on Pooter's departure from home, between himself and his revered grandparents. Ever since then the money has burnt in his pocket, and has nearly eaten its way through two pairs of Poole's best trousers. The ingenious youth's intention is to increase his pile, if possible, at the expense of the hereditary Prince of Monaco. Is the dear boy inclined to be extravagant? Oh, dear, no! it is merely that he may select appropriate trifles for his maiden aunts and his five younger...
...sympathy for health, and they are usually cramped by the tenets of their own school of therapeutic surmises. Nor is it enough to put over the Gymnasium a man who knows nothing of anatomy and physiology, however good a general gymnast he may be. Such a man may be best fitted to teach how to execute a certain exercise, but never to prescribe what exercise each man needs. A simple teacher of gymnastics without the light of anatomical knowledge to judge of each student's condition and powers by careful examination, would be no improvement on the present state...