Word: rottenest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...second to none in the whole broad land. It is, therefore, a bit startling, to express it mildly, to hear from no less distinguished a person than the Rev. Billy Sunday now conducting a revival in the very shadow of Harvard University, that New England colleges are the "rottenest" in the country. The noted revivalist is quoted, in the news-paper reports of his sermon to mothers last Friday, as saying: "There are damnable things being taught in the colleges of the country by men called professors and the rottenest of all are here in New England...