Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greatest dangers inherent in the new balance of the college year are certainly the scholastic ones. All large American universities, however, are at present replete with the highly developed extra-curricular activities. These are to some extent the product of the present system of education, whereby one's study is controlled by the college officials. In changing the old educational system at Harvard there must follow a change in the position of ex-curricular interests...
...West and the Southwest are expected to show the greatest strength in the Intercollegiate contests. The University of California, Leland Stanford. University of Texas and Williams are the leading contenders for team honors...
...College Library a few days later. In it he inscribed "Felicity is freedom, and freedom is magnanimity. Thucyd," Thomas Hollis was called "of Lincoln's Inn" to distinguish from the two other Thomas Hollises, all of whom were members of a family that was one of the greatest of Harvard's early benefactors...
With the Mississippi River steadily falling, with New Orleans generally considered safe from disaster, it last week became possible to estimate with some degree of accuracy the extent of what Flood Relief Director Herbert C. Hoover has called the "greatest peacetime calamity" in U. S. history...
...David Lloyd George delivered on this general theme the greatest speech which he has made this year. His mane of white hair bristled, and he spoke with a fire that carried conviction...