Word: strongest
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...could be built for about $75,000, and the money for it would naturally come from some one more interested in the Law School than Mr. Hastings was. His gift is to the College; and as an expensive building must be put up, an Art Museum certainly has the strongest claim. Before the new building is begun, it is to be hoped that a definite plan (irrespective of existing buildings, if need be) for the buildings of the Yard may be agreed upon...
Such an institution as the Union is one of the strongest ties for uniting the University...
...considers the aid given him an alms, or its acceptance a humiliation. The President's words on this subject were well chosen and directly to the point. My purpose is rather to deny that money given in scholarships is in any sense a charity, and to denounce in the strongest terms any attempt by undergraduate or outsider to arouse or increase that notion. It is a false one, wholly unworthy of the men who advance it. For what was the purpose of the founders of these scholarships? They were wealthy men interested in the cause of education...
...This is the season when hard work is most fatiguing, and yet most necessary. An ambitious student, trusting to the approaching vacation for rest and recovery, is tempted to strain every nerve, and, before he is hardly conscious of his danger, he may do himself irreparable injury. Even the strongest constitution and the most faithful exercise will not enable a man persistently to deprive his mind of needful rest; and if he gives to study the hours which belong to sleep, he must sooner or later break down...
...great event of the day, that which interested intensely every undergraduate present, was the tug of war, composed of the five strongest men in the four classes. The class of '79 led the way into the ring, headed by four of her representatives on the 'Varsity, Smith, Schwarz, Jacobs, Crocker, and Taussig. The appearance of those four men, who have done so much for the College in boating, and who have contributed so much to '79's reputation as an athletic class, was the signal for a burst of applause caused by a very pardonable pride. The class...