Word: truest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...scholastic. But it is a well-established fact that the solid majority of each class at Harvard proves thoroughly capable of riding both horses at once, and doing it well. In fact, the maintenance of a constant balance between these two phases of college life is the truest criterion of a successful all-around college career...
France has given her truest blood in this, her terrible war. The gift has been made freely and without question of the sacrifice. There has been no miserly doling out of life where the life of the nation, which dominates and includes the life of all individuals, was threatened. In brave fortitude the republic does not look to the past, nor count the tale of its dead...
...these United States many men who had marvelled at the strength of the German arms, and translated their amazement into sympathy, were shocked from their admiration for Germany's ability into horror of her brutality. On the 6th of May, 1915, we were in the truest and fullest sense of the term a neutral nation. On the 8th of May we were no longer neutral...
...with unusual appreciation. Apparently no effort is being made to bring him to Harvard. "If it is a question of funds," the Bulletin says, "something ought to be done to give our undergraduates the opportunity of encountering the stimulus to be gained from personal contact with one of the truest poets of the time. If it is a question of apathy, or the lack of one functionary whose business it shall be to see that such an opportunity is seized, all the more should propose something be done...
...scholarly activity as does the University. But in the case of the Bowdoin Prizes, only are they competed for in anything like adequate numbers. Last year sixty-seven men submitted essays for these. Yet even this number is misleading, for all who composed dissertations were not in the truest sense competitors. Too many handed in theses written for courses, after little or no revision, on the hope that they might "draw something." And the other competitions suffer considerably from a lack of interest...