Word: best
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...spring clothing and text-book collection of the Phillips Brooks House will be continued this evening. Out of the clothing collected the best will be taken and kept at Brooks House where it can be obtained by needy students. The rest will be sent to the various charities in and around Boston and to the Tuskegee Institute...
...annual spring clothing and textbook collection of the Phillips Brooks House will be taken up this evening and tomorrow evening. Out of the clothing collected the best will be taken and kept at Brooks House where it can be obtained by needy students. The rest will be sent to the various charities in and around Boston and to the Tuskegee Institute...
What I have in mind may be pointed out by a reference to the courses in the philosophy department, because I know its details best. But I have convinced myself that the principle is the same in the other departments. The table of results contains sixty-two courses; they represent all the courses which any Senior counted among his three most favored or his three most regretted courses. They are ordered according to an arbitrary percentage of calculation which is supposed to bring out the degree of preference. It may be noted from the start that more than three fourths...
...country which does not envy Harvard for this logical course. Those regretted points of the course result from the negative vote of perhaps five men, while the course was taken by one hundred and thirty-eight. On the other hand, it is not surprising that even the best logical course is not classed by any one among the three-most favored of his whole curriculum. The real triumph of the course lies in the fact that such a difficult course can attract a hundred and thirty-eight men. The fact that a few find out that logic is monotonous...
...elementary course, Philosophy E, is taken every year by about three hundred and fifty men: About fifteen men report on it and of these some favor, some regret it. The editorial comment of the Illustrated asking the teachers "to do their best" made a deep impression on me. I asked myself: What can I do to live up to the demand of the Senior who wrote about the course "nothing to it," and the other who wrote "slept most of the time"? Two ways are wide open. Either I make the course so difficult in the first few weeks that...