Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...removed from civilization that even the Pennsylvania Railroad can play tyrant with its hears no voice from afar except in Sunday Chapel, when occasionally a minister from Altoona and even Philadelphia may lecture. And it seems that any opportunity that would enable students to listen to the greatest of their own faculty ought to be welcomed by that body...
...throughout the country and to some in distant corners of the earth, this is sad news. "Copey" is an institution, as much a part of Harvard as Hollis Hall in which he has so long lived. To the undergraduates of the present and succeeding years the loss is greatest, for there is none to play his special role. His old "boys", who number many of the leading writers in the country and not a few bank presidents, Government officials and great lawyers, will be glad to learn that he is to retain his rooms in Hollis Hall which they knew...
...been by summoning the members of his composition course "English 23," to his rooms in Hollis to read aloud their themes to him, and by gathering others together on winter evenings to exchange ideas about everything this side of the moon, that his influence has been greatest. Thus he has quickened thought, provoked discussion, freshened ambition, and given many a youngster his first inkling of the value of clear thinking. In the process he has shaped the development of careers which, without his inspiration and interest, might never have reached their fullness. To others uncertain of themselves, he has given...
...Villard points out that the political dangers of this trend are the greatest. Of the papers that have vanished lately, the majority have been Democratic, with a corresponding stifling of expression by one of the two national parties in a number of states. It is possible, thinks the writer, that with a certain initial layout, one party may get control of the larger portion of the American printing presses...
...rest of his life," asserted Devereux Milburn, famous internationalist player in an interview with the CRIMSON reporter recently. Mr. Milburn, a graduate of the Harvard Law School, is one of three ten-goal handicap men in the country and is considered by experts to be the game's greatest exponent...