Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...League of Nations is the greatest constructive proposal made in centuries. Nevertheless, it is being opposed with such vigor by some of our Senators, that, in order to support the league, it is necessary to show that certain objections thought extremely serious by them are not well founded...
...wish to do so, on association with their fellow countrymen and on conversation in their native languages. Thus, particularly in the first and most difficult year for foreign students in the University, when the struggle should be made as easy as possible for them, they find their difficulties greatest...
...Gibbs also mentioned the esteem in which our soldiers were held in England and ended by saying that "the British have a strong respect for the American universities and in their behalf I greet Harvard with the greatest reverence...
Ignorance and illiteracy are the greatest possible obstacles to a free democratic government, a spirit of patriotism and Americanism. It is difficult to expect a man who cannot write his own name, whose whole life is bound up in six days of manual labor and a pay roll at the end, to appreciate the advantages of our particular constitution. Why should he not join the I. W. W., the Bolsheviki or any other organization that promises him more personal advantages, more money, more power. The agents of destruction are amply provided with arguments for his consumption...
...James Russell Lowell as the man who taught England and America the meaning of democracy featured the exercises held in Sanders Theatre by the Cambridge Historical Society Saturday evening in honor of the poet's hundredth birthday anniversary. William Roscoe Thayer '81 who presided referred to Lowell as the greatest ambassador America ever had President Eliot '53 reviewed Lowell's career as a professor at the University...