Word: brightest
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...when exercising their right of selecting subjects of study, to choose easy branches or to diminish their application. On the contrary, we have had to restrain some of our athletes from undertaking more intense application to a wider range of study than we deemed advisable, and some of our brightest graduates have been men who distinguished themselves in athletic sports. Just at present we have no gymnasium in the college, because our old one has been temporarily torn away, but have made arrangements for the students in an excellent gymnasium near by, and we also maintain for them a boat...
...matter of cis-Atlantic transit-observation is due to John Winthrop, who, at the time referred to, was Hollis professor of mathematics and natural philosophy. In giving an account of this experience, Josiah Quincy, in his history of Harvard College, characterizes this professor as "one of its brightest ornaments." - [Advertiser...
Every Harvard student may well be interested in the proposition made by Moses King to reprint that admirable work by F. G. Atwood, - one of the founders and the most prolific contributor of the Harvard Lampoon, - entitled "Manners and Customs of ye Harvard Studente." This is one of the brightest and most harmonious collections of college caricature that has ever appeared, and Mr. King will have a new edition made by the Christmas recess provided a sufficient number of copies are ordered in advance to secure him against loss...
...general popularity of the Lampoon among its college exchanges, has given birth to a desire on the part of the Yale and Princeton papers to have an illustrated paper at these colleges. The Lampoon is regarded as perhaps the brightest light in college journalism, possibly because it has no rival in its particular field, but probably because of the peculiar merit of its productions. We hope that before another year has passed we shall have the pleasure of exchanging with the "Yale - " and "Princeton - ," two illustrated journals published at Yale and Princeton respectively...
...K.WE agree with Dogberry that "comparisons are oderous," but it seems to us that the last number of the Acta was by far the brightest of any of the Exchanges we have received thus far. We have been in a state of perpetual smile ever since we read the adventures of the Acta representative at Vassar...