Word: best
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...game like baseball or any other team game, a player reaches his best while at college, but drops the game on leaving," said Mr. Niles. "In the case of tennis, which is an individual's sport, the player will keep it up, and frequently reaches his highest standing of play after graduation, as in the case of R. N. Williams '16, former University captain, who became national champion after graduating...
...Senate of the proposed constitutional amendment granting equal suffrage to women, this great question comes at last before the people of the country for definite ratification or rejection. Judging by the present liberal temper of the American people, it seems entirely probable that they will be true to their best interests, and add the Equal Suffrage Amendment to the organic law of the country...
...Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize for the "best poem on a subject or subjects to be chosen annually and announced by a committee of the Department of English" will not be awarded this year. Professor G. P. Baker '87, Barrett Wendell '77, and J. L. Lowes, A.M. '03, the judges, have decided that none of the poems submitted were of sufficient merit. Manuscripts may be obtained by the owners at University...
...Hardell '21 will be on the mound for the University, opposing R. Knight, pitcher, for the visitors. Knight is the best pitcher of the Providence aggregation, and has been in the box in nearly all of their important contests, including both games with Yale, and the Memorial Day contest with the University...
...student himself." He then went on to say that statistics compiled by the faculty have shown that the attainment of scholarship in the Graduate Schools corresponds directly with that obtained by men while undergraduates in the University. President Lowell ended by pointing out that if a man puts his best into his studies and also into his outside activities the former will take less tme, and will increase in standard, while the latter will be much to develop him and broaden his point of view...