Word: biggest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Biggest Colleges...
...feared that fields of concentration are sometimes chosen on even more trivial and irrational grounds. Dislike of an assistant in an introductory course; unwillingness to let laboratory work interfere with exercise; a silly tendency to run where the biggest crowd seems to be gathering, or to suppose that if no one from your school is concentrating in a given department it cannot amount to much,--these are only a few of the bad reasons. Everybody admits that they are bad reasons, of course, but nevertheless they do, I fear, influence decisions...
...ineligible until recently. The team so far has shown up well, having piled up high scores against M. I. T., Springfield, and Norwich. The only setback came from the Columbia mat men, who won by the narrow margin of a single decision. This will be the biggest meet of the season with the exception of the New England intercollegiate matches, which will be held at the University on March...
...their proposals logical, good-humored, and constructive the present criticism will be positively helpful rather than harmful. Already, it is bearing fruit in the insistence of the Overseers Committee on English that some sort of week in dramatic composition be continued despite Professor Baker's departure. Harvard makes its biggest gains in an atmosphere of free discussion, and that it is certainly getting now. As a member of one of the governing boards said to me the other day: "These digs from the graduates may not be precisely enjoyable, but they keep us up to the mark. And we mustn...
...blond mustache. Perhaps he knew that the girls were becoming hysterical because they had discovered in him a resemblance to the man whose picture appeared on the front page of their newspaper, whose name appeared on the front page of other sheets, thus: GIFFORD, 40, HEADS BIGGEST UTILITY COMPANY (New York Times) ; W. S. GIFFORD ELECTED HEAD OF A. T. & T. Co. (New York Herald-Tribune). If he knew this, it seemed to cause him neither amusement nor annoyance. He meditated, perhaps, on the fact that he had at his direct command more such girls than any other man alive...