Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...with Section 2 of the class constitution, a committee for the purpose of nominating the class officers will be elected. After 25 men have been nominated for this committee, a ballot will be cast, each person voting for 10 of the 25 nominees, and the 10 men receiving the greatest number of votes will constitute the committee. The present officers of the class also shall be members of this committee ex-officials...
...explained that China is the greatest of all nations in age, industry and population. Over two thousand years ago the country was civilized but today social and political conditions are much the same as they were at that time. Views were shown of the different modes of travelling at the present time and one of a model of a crude taxicab which was in use nearly a thousand years ago. Pictures were shown of the Great Wall, which was completed in 204 B.C., and which has never been surpassed by any architectural feat in the history of the world...
...Professor Meyer sketched the growth of scholarship in America, especially at Harvard, from the German standpoint. From a comparatively minor position in scholastic rank one hundred years ago, Harvard has risen to the first place among American institutions and to one of the highest positions among the world's greatest universities...
...continue his courses from year to year toward a definite goal. All new applicants will consult a board of advisers who will determine their fitness to enter any course; in this way, they will only take the studies for which they are fully prepared and thus derive the greatest benefit. If an applicant is not prepared for any course he desires to take, every effort will be made to help him. This will be aided further by grouping the courses in the different departments which are similar or supplemental and arranging that four such courses can be taken without...
...collectors with civility, and still more seldom with charity. The baffled harpies are driven to "bleeding" guileless Freshmen, haunting their rooms during the first two or three days in order to catch them before the first installments of allowances are exhausted, or before they cut their eyeteeth. Thus the greatest part of the total yearly income by subscriptions is made up; much of the remainder is accounted for by the contributions of competitors' friends...