Word: largest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...present Freshman class in spite of the many rumors to the contrary has turned out to be fully up to the standard in point of numbers. The registration at the office gives 261 names, eight more than entered with '87, and only two less than with '86, the largest class which ever entered college. The addresses are given as far as it has been possible to ascertain them...
...present freshman classes at Amherst and Dartmouth are the largest ever entered at those colleges...
...both Yale and Harvard the Freshman class is much smaller than last year. Amherst and Dartmouth have the largest Freshman classes in their history...
...Brine has just arrived from Europe, having been there since the term closed, and he brings the largest line of English flannels and underwear ever shown in Cambridge. Before buying, you would do well to call and examine our stock...
Again and again one hears from the outside world much talk about the indifference of Harvard students, and this has given rise to the so-called Harvard indifference-the distinguishing quality of one of the largest colleges in this country. The quality of indifference, however, is open to great discussion, as it is praised by some, tolerated by others, and loudly denounced by still a third party. All this antagonism arises perhaps from a misunderstanding of the term and its application to the college at large. A simple meaning is that it express a "don't-carewhat-happens" state...