Word: worst
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...present Harvard junior once remarked to us in all seriousness, 'that three-fourths of all the smart men in the country came from Harvard.' Shades of Minerva preserve us ere we fall! 'What shall we do to be saved! Perhaps we have been unfortunate, and run across the worst element of Harvard; at any rate, the above represents the tone and spirit of all our Harvard acquaintances. We might go on, but will not, for we have probably fallen into the ridiculous in speaking of the ridiculousness of others...
...Good Editor of the Wise Paper says that all College students are Bad Men. Name some of the attributes of College students. College students smoke Cigarettes and they Rush a great deal, and Haze one another, and, oh! some of them play Poker. But only the very Worst play Poker. So this must be a Yale man. Go away, you Bold...
...teachers an inspiring liberty and an unlimited scope in teaching, offer its students free choice among studies of the utmost variety, maintain a discipline adequate to the support of good manners and good morals, but determined by the quality of the best students rather than of the worst, admit to its instruction all persons competent to receive it, while jealously guarding its degrees, and promote among all its members a productive activity in literature and in scientific research...
...dramatization of the very worst of Black's novels, "Madcap Violet," is being produced in London...
...York stock market yesterday the general list was strong and firm throughout, and there is no disposition to sell stocks at present prices. The news from abroad represents the situation there as greatly improved, and the foreign houses state that the Paris bourse has undoubtedly seen the worst of its troubles for the present...