Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reasons for our failure are two. Perhaps the greatest fault is in the inactivity of the graduates in interesting boys in Harvard. I do not mean by that, Proselyting, but merely telling to them the merits of the college, and what they will gain by coming here. We do not want athletic parasites, but we want more men rooting for Harvard. We have bent over backwards to avoid proselyting, but we can at least stir up interest...
Newton High will enter the match exulting on account of its victory at the Yale Interscholastic. Besides winning as a team the greatest number of points. Turner, who ordinarily plays at number two won the individual tournament, defeating in the semi-finals his teammate Johnson, who was favored to come out ahead...
...greatest engineering feats of modern times...
Said Mrs. Frederick L. Martin, informed that her husband was safe: "I am going to ask Fred to make the greatest sacrifice he ever made in his life: I want him to promise me he will never fly again. . . . God bless the little messenger boy that delivered the telegram. He came to my sister's house where I have been staying . . . and his face was radiant with smiles. Instinctively, I knew he had brought me good news...
...declared that the greatest problem of higher technical education is the quality of the students. "Not more than 40% of the men admitted to engineering schools complete the courses and are granted degrees. There is the problem of how to get the right kind of young men into engineering colleges. For the 60% failure he blamed the lack of adequate training of high school graduates. He suggested that the engineering school should either close its doors to all save those with bachelor's degrees in a college of arts and sciences ("Undemocratic!"), or should lengthen its course...