Word: greatests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from the careful study of text-books; the Michigan student more often obtains his knowledge from the study of the co-eds in the classroom. And they are worth looking at. Be it known that the presence of several thousand female students at the University of Michigan is the greatest factor differentiating it from Harvard. For there is endless social life within the college. Whereas Harvard men get much of their excitement from rushing in to Boston, and attending the "deb" dances, the Wolverine undergraduate stays at home...
...greatest traditions of this rivalry is the annual struggle for the "little brown jug." When old Michigan teams traveled to play Minnesota, they carried their water in a number of brown jugs, painted with the Michigan colors. One year, however, it was found that one of the jugs was missing. Every place was searched, but the container could not be found anywhere in connection with the Michigan team. The incident was more or less forgotten, until the next year, when, at the game at Ann Arbor, the Minnesota supporters appeared on the field with the brown jug, repainted with Minnesota...
George David Birkhoff '05, professor of Mathematics, will represent Harvard at the inauguration of R. M. Hutchins, former dean of the Yale Law School, as president of the University of Chicago on Tuesday, November 19. The event is expected to mark one of the greatest gatherings of learned men in the history of the United States. One hundred college presidents have accepted personal invitations, and including the blanket invitation issued to the student body, the total number invited will reach the 23,000 mark...
This week-end there is occasion for those undergraduates who find themselves left in Cambridge to do a little exploring on playing fields whose informal air of good sportsmanship is certain to prove an attraction. Harvard's athletic policy has long been established on the principle of the greatest possible number of participants. The men who have discovered the benefits received in such humble places as the lacrosse field, the rifle range, and the soccer field have gone a long way towards answering the charge that Saturday football spectacles are the sine qua non of college life...
...getting down to the bed-rock of national consciousness Professor Fay can be of the greatest service to those who are working in the cause of world peace...