Word: biggest
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...represented the University. It has been much retarded by injuries but it comes to the final game in better condition than is usual at the end of a hard season. Besides its knowledge of football, the team has the excellent spirit that impels it to fight hardest against the biggest odds...
...raising a few years ago of a $3,000,000 endowment fund for increasing the salaries of teachers. Finally Mr. Chapman issues a call for Harvard to return to the paths of academic rectitude; to forego the alleged endeavor at mere physical size and to become again the biggest influence in the college life of the country. This change Mr. Chapman would accomplish by replacing with "scholars" the "business men" of the Corporation...
...song was by no means the only feature of last night's mass meeting. It was one of the biggest gatherings in the Union on record and there were scores of men who could not even get close enough to the doorways to see the platform. Everyone seemed charged not only with the ordinary enthusiasm of the last week of the season, but in addition with several pounds left over from Saturday's victory. It must have been gratifying to Captain Burr and his team to feel that such unstinted loyalty was being bestowed upon them. Another chance...
...Java." Besides giving vivid details of killing tigers on the ridges of Korea, in the coves of southeastern China, and in the jungles of Java, he threw many side-lights on the strange life and stranger customs of the people. In the opinion of the lecturer the best and biggest tigers are found near the sea in southeastern China. These are all man-eaters and live in the deep caves in the very rocky country. He told of crawling into one cave, and seeing by torchlight a large tigress with a human skull lying before...
...University boat the biggest problem this year was the selection of a stroke. E. Farley '07 has at last been decided on as the best man available for the position. He stroked his 1907 Freshman class crew, rowed on the victorious four-oared crew in 1905, and stroked the University eight this year against Cornell. In this last race he rowed very well. He showed good generalship and pulled hard all the way. Furthermore, the men have become accustomed to his rhythm and can follow him with regularity. Nevertheless he is none too sure of himself, for he has shown...