Word: happiest
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...number of the Illustrated Magazine opens with some characteristic sentences by Dean Briggs on the President-Elect. Addressed in the first place to a group of students in English 5, these remarks on the election of Mr. Lowell form, in their mingling of grace, frankness, and humor, perhaps the happiest comment so far made on the event which is of so much interest to us all. This event will remain in the minds of most readers of the second article, that of Mr. S. A. Mellor on the Oxford Undergraduate. Everybody is now meditating advice to the new President, formulating...
...then does the influence of the scholar reach? The great scholar has an immortality of his own, and the small scholar has an immortality proportionately large. After an examination of all the different callings that there are, the scholar's calling seems the happiest...
...teaching, which has recently occurred. Professors, instead of the old system of oral lectures, occasionally use the co-operation of their best students in advanced subjects. Modern universities employ individual laboratories and individual teaching. In conclusion Professor Ostwald said that a freshman in college is entering one of the happiest periods of his life, since for the first time he can exercise power with perfect freedom...
...would also offer you the prizes in life which all men crave, for I would paint the pictures in true, warm colors and thus win you to the true faith--I mean the conviction that life is happiest for the man whose every faculty is well developed...