Word: worst
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...says: 'I was enrolled among the members of different, and sometimes opposite, institutions - a Theological Society, which was very good, and a Porcellian Club . . . . ; a Phi Beta Kappa Society, intended to be composed of the best scholars, and a "Navy" Club, which was above suspicion as containing the worst.' He graduated with the poem at commencement...
...conferring them upon any one who may happen to hold a high office. It is claimed that this is done in honor to the people who are represented by the office, but just why the university should give its highest degree to a man who is pandering to the worst elements and to his own love of notoriety, does not clearly follow from that vague statement. The recipient of a degree ought to be worthy of it, it might have been argued, or it ought not to be given him, for although it be conferred on him in his capacity...
...worst features of the elective system, it must be admitted, is the opportunity it offers the student to spread his work over too wide a field - to dabble in too many subjects at a time. A system which would require concentration upon fewer subjects, we believe, is to be desired. This result the system of "semester" courses would seem to provide...
...worst hurricane that has visited Aden for twenty years occurred yesterday. Serious damage was done on land and water...
President Bartlett is reported as saying that the graduation of Daniel Webster at Dartmouth, was one of the worst things that ever happened to the college, because every student of low standing referred to him as one of his kind who afterward rose to eminence...