Word: highest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...necessity for reorganization in our consular service. Not the least important among the provisions in the resolution is one calling for the establishment upon a sounder basis of the junior service and a general increase in salaries, to attract to a diplomatic career University-trained men of the highest type and greatest ability...
...schools train their students for general efficiency in life. The report is a splendid tribute to the work of the public schools. But if the average public school has any tendency to over-coach its boys, there are a lot of private schools in this country where the very highest standards of general training, discipline and democracy are maintained, and their graduates do not fall behind the public school men in college standing. BOSTON HERALD...
Surely "My country, right or wrong," cannot be the highest moral standard! Say rather with Karl Shurz: "My Country right or wrong . . . if wrong, to make right." ARTHUR NEWELL MOORE...
Heretofore the Trophy has been awarded to the school having the greatest number of candidates on the honor list, but, in accordance with the vote of the chapter taken last year, the award has now been made to the school whose candidates attained the highest average grade, this grade being calculated on the total records of all final candidates from the school competing as a group with all final candidates from other schools...
...disorder as the world has never seen. "Peace! peace! they cry; but there is no peace." Wars and rumors of wars shake us as they never did before. We are now in the grip of a great coal famine, which, before it is past, will bring suffering to the highest as well as to the lowest. Its ramifications extend to every branch of our life; its crushing effect on industry makes vain every attempt to minimize its evil. Its paralyzing consequences are felt by the ships at sea and in the nations beyond...