Word: highest
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...team. Burr was not only the backbone of the line, but it was due to his punting ability that Harvard had an advantage over nearly all its opponents. The rest of the men are in the best possible condition; and the eleven, as a whole, is at the highest point in its development...
...coming year. The clause of the 1910 constitution which refers to this meeting says; "At this meeting the nominations for the committee may be made to the number of 20; and a ballot then being cast, each man voting for 10 of the 20 nominees, the 10 receiving the highest number of votes shall constitute the committee. In addition to the 10 elected members, the class officers shall be members ex-officiis. The committee so elected shall nominate within one week at least two candidates for each office." It is important that every member of the class should be present...
...formally presented to the University an address was delivered that ought to be read by every man who enters the building. It is full of a magnanimous spirit of generosity and devotion to Harvard, and cannot fail to arouse in anyone who reads it the feeling that his highest privilege as a member of the University is to give something to that University. And yet there are those who, ignorant or forgetful of this dedicatory address, even in the very building that is a monument to generosity and devotion are endeavoring to get something for nothing from the University...
...merits of contemporaneous art he was warmly appreciative, but he felt, as all men of large vision must feel, that much of it is too limited in purpose, and too experimental in method, to rank as yet with the highest achievements of past times. Thus in University teaching he felt that it was more important to acquaint young men with what the fine arts have been than to engage their attention extensively on the various phases of modern art which, though manifesting much that is hopeful, are more or less transient in character. CHARLES H. MOORE...
...Holmes, are not lost to the consciousness of any who knew them; the Cambridge, the Boston, the New England, the America which lived in them, has not yet passed away. He was not only the contemporary, the companion of those great men; he was their fellow citizen in those highest things in which we may be his if we will, for the hospitality of his welcome will not be wanting. Something Athenian, something Florentine, something essentially republican and democratic in the ideals common to them all has had its especial effect in him through that temperamental beneficence, that philanthropy...