Word: finest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Harvard is not composed of "quitters". Our substitute team, fighting against one of the finest elevens in the country, demonstrated that most clearly on Saturday. Why then do not the students enter into the spirit of the games with more vigor? Our team has coaching second to none; every man on the team, as Captain Fisher has said, is a fighter; but if, at the outset of an important game, any player makes a mistake and the opposing team seems to "get the jump" for a moment, the student body seems to lose heart and to desert the team. Thereafter...
Professor Kuno Francke, curator of the Germanic Museum has received official announcement that the Government of Rhenish Prussia, at the suggestion of Professor Clemen of the University of Bonn, former exchange professor in the University has decided to give to the Germanic Museum a collection of casts of the finest and most representative works of Rhenish sculpture from the Romanesque, the Gothic and the Renaissance periods. The collection will include among other monuments a richly ornamented portal of Treves Cathedral, the Romanesque portal of the Church of Our Lady at Andernach, choir screens from the Church of St. Maria...
...Benchley '12 spoke on "Boys' Clubs." He emphasized the fact that good is not only done to the boys, but that inestimable good is done the teachers by the points which they learn from their wards. The finest thing a social service worker can do is to learn one or two of his boys by heart, to have them as true friends, boys to whom he is an idol, and who take from him the ideals which will stir ambition in their souls...
...constructing our first building, which is pronounced by experts to be the finest and handsomest example of college architecture in eastern Massachusetts. It is on property which we bought from the Charles Eliot Norton estate-five acres altogether-and adjoins the land of the Harvard Divinity School. The building will cost about a quarter of a million dollars. For the time it will house the seminary completely, offering even dormitory facilities...
...several narrow escapes form infuriated elephants and rhinos, once stopping a charging elephant only ten feet off. Buffaloes, also, were very dangerous. Lion hunting, though Colby said, is the finest sport of all, for the hunter is pitted against another trained hunter who knows much more about it than he does. Lions are crafty, and often seem cowardly, for they know that their charge is dangerous only within 40 yards. Once started, however, nothing but instant death can stop them...