Word: strongest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...picked team was composed of players selected from the Somerville, Boston, and Cambridge clubs, and was the strongest twelve with which Harvard has yet had to contend. The game was well played and interesting throughout, and was only decided by extending the time of play beyond the close of the second half hour. Harvard won the game because of superior team play...
...being in bad condition and weak is all trash. The following is from his letter of last week: "All things considered, there is no good reason why these men should not be equal to, if not better, than last year. Taking it for granted that Harvard will present her strongest crew, Yale will, I think, have as reasonable a chance as she did last year. To call Yale's chances poor would be an opinion of hopes and fears, and not good judgment on what the crew have done and are doing...
...large number of readers is the strongest inducement for a writer to do his best work; the "Advocate," therefore, having a much larger number of subscribers, would offer a stronger inducement for good work than a new paper...
There is a need of some means of publishing in permanent form "the best literary work of the college," and of having here at Harvard some paper which shall "represent within its pages the strongest and soberest under-graduate thought." This can be done in one of two ways; either by a new Literary Monthly, or by the "Advocate," which proposes to add to its size next year, and to do exactly, in quality and in quantity, the work which would be done by a Literary Monthly. Not more than one paper whose aim is to represent the best literary...
...field is necessarily a circumscribed and limited one. With all the merits of the Lampoon, the Advocate and the CRIMSON, none of these exist solely with the aim of putting in attractive and permanent form the best literary work of the college, nor of representing within its pages the strongest and soberest undergraduate thought. It is evident, also, that the efforts put forth of late by the instructors in English, coupled with a growing sense of the importance of the study, have succeeded in making the welfare of the English department one of the very greatest interest to every student...