Word: best
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...thoughtful of other people. He was really held in affectionate regard by more older people than any boy of his age I know, and of course I swore by him, and he by me. He was closer to me than anybody else, and I loved him as my best friend and brother. And now he has been killed...
...sick and discouraged and felt that even God had gone back on me. But I can see now that perhaps after all it was a very wonderful privilege for him to die in that way,--in defence of his country and doing his best to uphold the right as he saw it and if I have to go the same way I shall regard it as an honor and a privilege...
...Getting Together," at the Majestic, is dramatized propaganda, and as such ranks as the best piece that has touched Boston this season. It is as plotless as the Follies and as well equipped scenically as that hardy annual, but there the comparison ceases. Ziegfeld capitalizes pulchritude and "Getting Together" does the same thing with patriotism...
Coach Donovan will give the distance runners a two-mile tryout on the cinder track in the Stadium at 5 o'clock this afternoon for the purpose of sizing up the material and choosing the best men for the R. O. T. C. marathon relay on April 19, in which the University Corps is to enter a team of ten runners. A large proportion of the men chosen for the run of Patriots' Day will undoubtedly be Freshmen, for the 1921 team is unusually strong in distance...
Does anybody know what it is all about? Does anybody care? If I were to approach Mr. Lazarus, or Mr. Joslyn, or last but not least Mr. Tucker, and say to them: here is Harvard University, a poor sort of institution at best, but just now utterly ruined by the lamentable uncertainty as to the educational program which it is to adopt for the future; take it; take it as a gift, and do with it what you will, so long as you write no longer--would they then leap to the opportunity and reorganize us all, or would they...