Word: finest
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...Thayer; of 80 coins from Palestine and Phoenicia; and of 125 Syraic manuscripts from the library of Professor G. R. Harris of England. Those manuscripts are finely bound and range over the whole period of Syraic literature and contain examples of all the great writers. This is probably the finest collection in private hands...
...great movement of the world today is towards democracy, which one hundred years from today will exceed any present conception. If the democracy of this great country is to be sound, our commerce and society must be of sound character. Critics have said, that democracy is inconsistent with the finest characteristics of past ages...
...time of the Revolution there were no medical schools in this country and young men entered the offices of prominent physicians as apprentices. The Harvard Medical School was begun in 1785 in Holden Chapel with three lecturers. The School is now one of the finest in this country and, in a few years, when the new buildings are occupied and the proposed hospitals built near them, it should offer the best opportunities of any institution of its kind...
...Townsend '08; "Pro Justitia," by C. R. Comstock '08: "How the Old Horse Won the Bet," by O. W. Holmes '29; "Dog Island," by H. A. Bellows '06; "Song of a Distant City," by F. C. Irving '06; "With the Tide," by T. D. Sloan '06; "Cennini's Finest," by R. J. Walsh...
...learn is the difference between practising generously a liberal art and driving a trade or winning a fight, no matter how. Civilization has long been in possession of much higher ethics than those of war, and experience has abundantly proved that the highest efficiency for service and the finest sort of courage in individual men may be accompanied by, and indeed spring from, unvarying generosity, gentle manliness, and good will...