Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...With the greatest respect, JOSEPH A. DENNISON...
...education that has been made during the college year, which with the sum pledged by the trustees of the college makes one of the most remarkable of recent gifts. Dr. Ayres has shown great wisdom in imposing no restrictions upon the gift which will be disposed of to the greatest good of the university...
...Boston theatre last evening. The play is presented in four acts, each scene being exceedingly realistic, especially the school house which is a good reproduction of an old fashioned country school. The cast is strong throughout but Martin Tripp the country boy, and Squire Olcott meet with the greatest favor and keep the audience in laughter throughout the performance. The story is of a bank robbery and the real robber is not found out until the ringing of the midnight bell by the sexton who becomes locked in the belfry...
...healing among the Greeks. The worship of Asklepios as the god from whom men derived power to cure wounds and diseases seems to have originated in Thessaly, but in prehistoric times had spread widely over Greece. The god's most important sanctuary was the Epidauros, and his greatest shrines throughout Greece were the offshoots of the Epidaurian. Games in honor of Asklepios, consisting of gymnastics, music and the representation of plays were established at Epidauros in very early times. A great many fanciful theories have been propounded as to a connection between these games and the art of healing...
Lessing was perhaps the greatest critic that ever lived. His superiority was demonstrated in his judgment of Shakespeare, whom he understood far better than his English contemporary, Johnson. His literary reviews were fearless, and even his personal friends were not spared. He freed the German drama from its slavery to the French school, and showed how the French drama failed to conform not only to the German character, but to the fundamental principles of art. In the Laocoon he drew the distinction between painting and poetry, and made evident the great harm that had been done by the confusion...