Word: largest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Under Biography, one of the largest main headings, collected works come first, and then separate works. Biographies are entered under two heads, first directly under this head, and then under a special sub-division in the department in which the man was distinguished. By biography is meant not simply personal history, but criticism of any subject relating to the man's work. In looking for an historical work, you do not look under the name of the country or place, but under History in general. Histories of wars are to be found under Military History, but not under the particular...
...number of delegates in Cambridge is very large. Amherst sends the largest delegation, which numbers twenty-three or thereabouts...
...shall represent the different classes in the future conferences, if such there be. It is that the number from each class shall not be the same, but graded according to the length of time which the classes have been in college, that the senior class have the largest delegation, the junior next, and so on, down through the sophomores to the freshmen, who shall have the smallest. It seems manifestly unfair that the seniors with all their experience in college, should not be able to outvote the freshmen who have just entered, or the sophomores who have only been here...
...fourth concert of the series was given last night in Sanders' Theatre, before the largest audience that has hitherto attended these concerts...
...third to the fourth class, and the fourth class lost a quarter of its whole membership. The first class is a small one, there being only 30 members. All of them are likely to graduate in June next. The second class stood the ordeal well. It has the largest membership of that class ever at the Point, having 82 members. Not one was found deficient. The Ohio colored lads are doing finely. Alexander of the third class stands 19 in a class of 70, and Young, in the fourth, is about midway in a class of 76 members...