Word: furthest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard indifference, of which people pretend to be proud, has gone to the furthest limits has sunk to the lowest depths it could possibly reach. To think that the first of the Big Three games should come off this Saturday and only half the Union hall full! It is a deplorable thing to think that our students who come from the four corners of the globe to share Harvard's scholastic prestige cannot show their support and admiration of that team which sat so woefully, yes, I even dare say, disgusted, on the platform...
...strong for religion," continued Professor Holmes, "and I resent attacks against sectarian schools. Teachers should have some responsibility over religion. When a man takes up the profession of teaching he devotes his life to the general betterment of his pupils. He becomes fundamentally interested in advancing man to his furthest ends. Religion is undoubtedly so closely connected with this purpose, that a teacher, in order to achieve his end, really must teach...
...always there is a reverse to the medal. To Harvard men and to some few others at least, Harvard indifference is really Harvard manifoldness or Harvard individualism a philosophy of live and let live, freedom of thought and speech and action carried to the furthest reasonable limit. And so those who believe in Harvard and its ideals make a virtue out of the very thing which the critics paint as the darkest vice...
American Literature, writes this very modern Englishman, like the Russian has come to a real verge. "The furthest frenzies of the French modernism or futurism have not reached the pitch of extreme consciousness that Poe, Melville, Hawthorne, Whitman reached." These Americans "refuse everything explicit and always put up a sort of double meaning. They revel in subterfuge. They prefer their truth safely swaddled in an ark of bulrushes, and deposited among the reeds until some friendly Egyptian princess comes to rescue the babe." Needless to say, Mr. Lawrence will play the kind-hearted daughter of Pharach to rescue the infant...
...daily circulation, nearly three times greater than any American newspaper) is the most widely read journal in France. It is printed in 15 separate editions. The first edition comes off the press at 5.30 a. m. of the day before and is shot to the provinces furthest North. The last edition leaves the machines at 6 a. m. for the grand boulevards...