Word: highest
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...first of May every year each institution will publish the record of its fifty strongest men examined that year. The individual having the highest total shall be deemed the champion strong man of all the colleges, and the institution having the fifty strongest men, as decided by the largest total score, shall hold the total strength trophy for the next year...
...Dean of the reorganized Faculty of Arts and Sciences from 1890 to 1895. He had great influence as Dean and was a valuable adviser to the President. He was eminently successful in administrative work and contributed so much of his energy to it that he did not reach his highest possibilities in economic science. He devoted most of his attention to finance and taxation, and especially to the financial history of the United States. He was editor-in-chief of the Quarterly Journal of Economics from its beginning until 1896, and has been an associate editor since that time...
...White, a well-known Shaksperean critic, describes "King Lear" as of all Shakspere's plays the largest in conception, the noblest in design, and the highest in art. Although almost universally associated with the three other great tragedies of Hamlet, Othello and Macbeth, it differs from all three in its essential purpose. Hamlet is a play of inaction and indecision; Othello is the story of the down fall of a great soul through jealousy, Macbeth that of a man overcome by ambition. The distinction of "King Lear" lies in the fact that it displays the tragic power of retribution over...
...Solness, however, brought out vividly the conflicting elements of Solness's almost insanely morbid character. Miss Kahn, as Hilda Wangel, was the star of the performance; the mere fact of her having given to Ibsen's impossible heroine so much life and so much reality, is in itself the highest tribute to her acting. Mr. Lewis, as Ragnar Brovik, seemed much more at home than in "Ties," and played his part with greater ease and more convincingness. But the theories of the so-called "natural" school of acting have so far influenced the cast, with the possible exception of Miss...
...aspect of the play set forth by these characters is, it must not be forgotten, the less important side. The play is, after all, the love-story of Viola, and represents the highest genius of Shakspere for producing noble, high-minded characters, of whom Viola, in her way, stands pre eminent...