Word: profoundest
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...right to expect. It is that the faculty will through the committee give some definite idea of what its policy in the matter of college sports at present is or is likely to become in the future. As to this question at present the college is in the profoundest doubt. The passage on the subject in President Eliot's recent annual report is far from satisfactory as an expression of such policy. It is in many points vague and noncommttal, and can fairly in part be termed a special pleading. It criticizes without suggesting a remedy, unless by implication...
...Calhoun has just brought to me a letter, which he said he had just received from President Nathan Lord of Dartmouth College, and asked me a great many questions about him and the college. He left asserting that President Lord was one of the ablest thinkers and profoundest reasoners in the country.' At that time President Lord was not only at the head of the college but of the Congregational denomination in New England. With a bravery worthy of a better cause he followed Mr. Calhoun's doctrines to their natural sequence and he had to give up his position...
...college yesterday received the news of the death of Mr. Longfellow with the profoundest grief. Although the event was not altogether unexpected, yet it came with a suddenness that was a shock to many, as indeed all death must be. "Mr. Longfellow's connection with Harvard is part of his fame and that of the college," Mr. Howells says in his sketch of Longfellow, and any account of his life "can but very briefly remind the reader of facts in the life of a poet only less known than Shakespere." It is not for us to speak of his fame...