Word: worst
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...this issue suggested a number of ques- tions in Harvard history that are probably very funny to those who understand the allusions. To those who do not, and it is highly probably that only a chosen few do, they are laborious and savor of the Lampoon at its worst. The Graduate blances up the "questions" with a vigorous little essay on the University's duty of making "practising" Americans of students of all races who come here...
...Harvard should have every facility for carrying on its experiments and for instructing future chemists. Yet while the special research laboratories, used only by professors and very far advanced students, are excellent and adequate, it must be admitted that the facilities for instructing the undergraduate are perhaps the worst in the country, and that, in comparison with some other departments, the chemistry department is at a distinct disadvantage. Boylston Hall is not fire-proof; its store-room is inaccessible; it is dark;--in fact it is hopelessly inadequate...
...finished until nearly ten weeks after the mid-years. Surely five weeks is too short a time for the spring term--the best term in the year. And surely ten weeks is too long a time for the term between mid-years and the Easter vacation--the worst term in the year. And especially would it be more agreeable to have the vacation come at the same time as that of the other colleges...
...columns of your paper in behalf of a campaign that is being waged for cleaner government here in Cambridge? For years Cambridge has been controlled by a corrupt Democratic "ring" and has gained the reputation of being one of the worst governed cities, in the country. This year a more determined effort than ever before is being made to defeat this "ring" and conditions appear to be favorable. The Citizens Party is planning to make a personal canvass of a certain portion of the voters the nights before election, Monday, March 8. To do this it will need help...
...gone so far as to institute a court in which convicts try their fellows for minor infractions of the rules. Working with great understanding of his "prison-going friends," as he calls them, he is well on the way towards turning what was once one of the country's worst penal institutions into one of its best...