Word: great
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...that some kinds of radicalism are fully as valuable and desirable as some kinds of conservatism, the people of Massachusetts showed that the kind of radicalism that was offered them was not the kind they wanted; and what was more, they purposed to show the country just where the great mass of the citizenry stood on the matter...
...Rhodes Scholar I wish to protest gently against some of the suggestions of the editorial entitled "Rhodes Scholars Old and New." That "hitherto American Rhodes Scholars were not a great success at Oxford" and that the "Yankee" at Oxford has not been truly representative of the best that America can produce, are two assumptions which I doubt if you are entitled to make, however little I may be in a position gracefully to repute them. If you are under the impression that recent writings in the Atlantic Monthly give you authority, a less cursory reading of those articles will answer...
...value of music in inspiring sentiments as noble as that of friendship. "Mr. Higginson gave Solidiers Field. It symbolized the love of friends. It was in memory of the friends of his, youth, his comrades who died in the war when he and they staked their lives in the great cause. And then, years later, he gave this building (the Union), symbolizing the love of friendship...
...funeral services of Major Higginson yesterday noon Appleton Chapel was filled to overflowing with friends who had come to do homage to Harvard's great benefactor. In addition to President Lowell and the Board of Overseers, who acted as honorary pallbearers, the University was represented by over a thousand students, who assembled in a double line outside of the chapel...
Already this year the Harvard Clubs have given a dual concert with Princeton at Princeton the eve of the Tiger game. This proved a great success, and all indications point to an even greater popularity at the Yale concert. The program will embrace songs and instrumental pieces by both of the universities, interspersed with specialty numbers...