Word: tops
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Freshmen entering Columbia, and the men who were accepted on this plan have in almost every case proved their ability to handle the work. All men who took the tests were divided into three groups, and of the first group only two have failed to rank near the top of their class. It is admittedly impossible to judge finally as to the value of the tests with only one year's trial but Dr. Jones is confident of their ultimate value...
Another result of the class campaign was the issuance of the final ranking list with the class of 1908 at the top with 99 per cent of its class residing in the Boston district enrolled on the Endowment Fund lists. The class of 1885 was a close second, while 1901 and 1909 were also more than 90 per cent. enrolled...
...benefit of many men in Government courses who have asked concerning the operation of the voting machine, as well as any others interested, Professor W. B. Munro has arranged for a demonstration of the American Voting Machine in the Municipal Library, Room O, on the top floor of Widener this afternoon...
There can't be a shadow of doubt that some of the American football battles in France, waged by men at the top of condition and aglow with victory over the world's enemy, were the hardest-fought pigskin combats in which Americans had had ever been pitted against one another. They were tremendous, Homeric, and the sport gained incalculably, Stubbes, who seems to have been a cantankerous old person, said in his "Anatomie of Abuses" (1583) that football was a "devilishe pastime," causing "brawling, murther, homicide, and great effusion of blood." Sir Thomas Elyot (1531), had called it "nothyng...
...opinion is against the strike. So is labor; a strike is as hard on the worker as it is on anybody else. But a Labor Administration would be beer and skittles for everyone except capital and the public. It is not hard to see who would be on the top of the heap with such a regime...