Word: strongest
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Williams expects this year to put the strongest nine in the field that she has ever...
...claimed, the classics give; and it has been through his influence that the curriculum of the freshman year has been so changed as to make French or German practically the only prescribed study. And yet we do not hesitate to say that Harvard is weakest where it should be strongest, that is in German. The trouble lies not perhaps with the individual instructors, but with the general management. What is sadly needed is a head, some one who will be to this, what Professor Bocher is to the French department. At present there are in German two instructors...
...which caused the black-balling of Messrs. Greener and Terrell. In the mean time the friends of Mr. Terrll are not acting as if they dreaded any such revelation. Mr. C. W. Stone of Boston has written a letter to the Advertiser upholding Mr. Terrell's character in the strongest and instancing in proof his position in the class of '84 in college. "The suggestion that he would have been blackballed if he had been white," says Mr. Stone, "is just silly. If that club in Washington does not choose to sit down with colored men, let them...
...asked after another Tufts friend. Our host stepped to the door and cried up the stairs for some one to tell Sam to come down. The students are on close terms with the professors, and are very intimate with each other. We were shown the "head grind," "the strongest man in college," the man who boarded himself on fifty cents a week, the chemical labratory, the "Quad," the various objects of interest that crowd upon the visitor at Tufts, and finally left with an impression that Tufts College is the largest institution "that ever lived in the tide of time...
...academical department of the college, it would be impossible for any one, who was pursuing a liberal education, to fail to find such electives as be would desire to take. Yet we feel that there is something lacking, and that, too, in what we consider one of our strongest departments, that of Natural Science. In the elective pamphlet there is not to be found mention of a single course in one of the grandest of our sciences, Astronomy. Turning to the catalogue under the head of "The Astronomical Observatory," we find this statement: "Any one properly qualified to pursue...