Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...present time the University has in it one of the greatest runners the world has ever known, in Alfred Shrubb. It is without doubt the opportunity of a lifetime for a man who wishes to know how to run long distances to come out, and to learn without injury to himself. It is appalling in a University of 2071 eligible men, with this opportunity starting them in the face, that only twenty men are out running under his careful direction. If a man has never run, it is the time for him to try, for no one knows what...
Public sentiment in the beginning was that we had made a serious mistake in assuming the responsibility for these islands, and that we should find problems there which we could not overcome. This feeling is now changed, and we have succeeded beyond our greatest hopes in the administration of the Philippines. A government is successfully established; the necessary bureaus and offices are arranged; justice is given to all; the islands are strictly self-supporting, and require no financial help from the United States. The archipelago is in good sanitary condition, disease is eliminated as far as possible, roads, railways, harbors...
...force all depositors to pay tithes was an obvious injustice. As for the third contention, any such legislation as Mr. Bryan desired showed a suspicion and doubt on the part of the people, of the integrity of the United States courts. Such a suspicion would be of the greatest injury to our prosperity, for it would take away the dignity of our highest judicial body, and it would attach three fundamental powers of the courts given them by the Constitution...
...Republicans offered a man of the greatest integrity and highest ability, trained and experienced in all branches of government. His was the personality that made the Philippines ready to accept civilization...
Professor Lowell, speaking on the benefits of college life, deprecated the tendency away from competition which would put all the effort of college undertakings on a dead level. In athletics or in study one cannot cultivate himself up to his greatest efficiency without measuring himself against the next...