Word: finer
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...through the generosity and artistic judgment of Major Higginson over a course of more than 50 years, America has been enabled to have one of the leading orchestras in the whole world. Competent critics from the Continent have often considered it to be the finest; undoubtedly there is no finer...
...fight he manfully stuck to his post at Harvard, devoting all his energies to maintaining the continuity of instruction, and to keeping alive the undergraduate organizations with which he was most closely identified. This was his contribution to the common cause, and it were difficult to imagine a finer or more useful...
...that in reconstructing education the classics must not be forgotten. "After all," he says, "idealism is the only practical thing." It is in humanizing, in leavening human society, then, that we can overcome those forces which, shooting up from the soil of a "reckless" materialism, work adversely to the finer and nobler aspirations of human society. If we are to choose between leaven and dynamite in reconstructing civilization, by all means let it be the former...
...Guild '06, have assisted Coach Donovan in putting the finishing touches on, and have sent the team through some stiff workouts. The men have been especially coached to meet. Brown's system of aerial attack, and Leary has been giving the line some of the finer points as an antidote against the powerful Brown line...
...Guild '05 and Ensign W. B. Snow '18 have been down at Soldiers Field for the past few days assisting Coach W. F. Donovan in drilling the men in the finer points of football science...