Word: finest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Herbert Tree has not played in Boston for nineteen years. During this period he has made His Majesty's Theatre in London a great national institution devoted to the arts of the theatre and has brought into his service the finest actors of the time and distinguished artists, musicians and scholars. He has kept Shakespeare on the stage. From 1897 to the present time he has made each year a magnificent production of one of Shakespeare's plays: 'The Merry Wives of Windsor,' 'Hamlet.' 'Julius Caesar,' 'King John,' 'A. Midsummer Night's Dream,' 'Twelfth Night,' 'King Richard III,' 'The Tempest...
...Lane in his communication asks that students using the library be more careful where they throw cigarette stubs and refrain from throwing ink on the marble floors. The Widener Library is considered the finest college library in America, and the easiest way undergraduates can show their appreciation of this magnificent gift is to help preserve its beauties instead of trying to deface the interior decorations. In many German cities the scattering of papers or other refuse in public parks is punishable by a fine and even imprisonment. Such measures are obviously not necessary to impress upon the gentlemanly undergraduates...
...advanced courses of the School to bring about a close co-operation between the corps of instructors on the one hand and the business community on the other. It is here that the School of Business will find an unexampled opportunity and perform an unexampled service. Just as the finest medical schools can exist only where there are the greatest hospitals, that is, in the large centres of population, so that the most successful schools of business in the future may be expected to be found in the great centres of business life...
...Widener Library has just acquired by gift four relics of Robert Louis Stevenson which are the finest of any in the entire Stevenson collection in the Treasure Room of Widener, and are probably among the most valuable in the country. Three of the acquisitions are the gift of Mrs. Hamilton Rice (Mrs. Widener), of Philadelphia, and the fourth was donated to the University by the wife of the late Frederick Guion Ireland '68, of New York. They number a copy of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" with a rhymed inscription; the corrected proof sheets of "Underwoods"; one of ten printed...
President Lowell's words are true. The deep and real spirit of the University is one of willingness to face difficulties, and to forget the individual in striving for the nation. The Naval Cruise is one of the finest chances that could be devised for young men of education preparing themselves for national defence. We know the tremendous need of the navy for trained officers and reserves. The opportunity is open to Harvard men of showing the spirit that they have shown in the past, and of perpetuating the name of Harvard enthusiasm, to take the place of a mythical...