Word: ever
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...English, Professor Kittredge. His six lectures on Chaucer, delivered at Johns Hopkins University in 1914, have recently been published under the title of "Chaucer and His Poetry." It is, I think, hardly too much to say that this is one of the most interesting books on Chaucer that has ever appeared. Based upon profound and exact knowledge, it is as far as possible removed from pedantic scholarship. It is instinct throughout, with the liveliest enjoyment of Chaucer's art and its purpose is to impart to the reader something of the author's conception of Chaucer as 'the most modern...
...intercollegiate debating by a writer in a recent number of the Nation. The correspondent charges that debating breeds insincerity, logical trickery, emotional dishonesty. It is, he asserts, "The worst possible training for public life . . . I do not believe any American with the forensic training of an American University ever achieved honorable success in public life without consciously rejecting all that he ever learned in these debating teams...
...again, and the acquisition of Wanamaker has strengthened the line considerably. Saltonstall will probably play the other wing or centre, with Bikes who is slower on his skates than in former days, but makes up for that deficiency with the stick and by his headwork. Phillips looks better than ever, always skillful in handling his stick, while he also seems to have developed more skill in skating...
Seventy-two candidates for the relay teams reported to Coach Donovan at the board track on Soldiers Field yesterday. This is the largest number that ever came out on the first day for winter track work. Only very light work was in order, the men being dismissed after brief preliminary practice...
...planned to enter a five-man team in the intercollegiate indoor games to be held in New York on March 4, and there is a splendid chance for anyone of even average ability to make the team which will compete as a unit. All those who have ever done any shot-putting and any having the necessary weight are urged to come...