Word: chief
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...League was due to the fact that the intense competition within that League had led to objectionable practices in all the colleges, which, as was proved at the meetings held in New York on Nov. 4 and 14, Princeton could not be brought to abandon by amicable agreement. The chief of these objectionable practices are-first, inducing good players to enter college, or to return to college mainly for the purpose of engaging in intercollegiate contests; and, secondly, putting on teams good players who are not in reality amateurs, but have received compensation for the practice of their sport...
...chiefly indebted to the German government for our knowledge of the architecture and sculpture of Pergamon. By the aid of the large sum of money voted by the German government extensive researches have been made, and many relics have been brought to Berlin, which has become one of the chief centres of the study of Greek...
...continue until after New Years, is the extravaganza "Bluebeard Jr.," by the Chicago Opera House company. It is on the order of the "Crystal Slipper," which was played in Boston last season. At least two hundred persons appear during the performance. The stage settings are particularly elaborate. Among the chief features are the ballet of birds and insects, the golden terrace of Bluebeard's castle and the light of Asia ballet...
...leaders in the revolution were selfish men, seeking for personal aggrandizement. It certainly was not right to turn out in their favor a man who for fifty years guided the destinies of the Empire, and raised it from the position of an unimportant state to be one of the chief countries of the world. Mr. Bates also spoke of the incongruous elements of the people in Brazil, and of the vast territory to be governed by so small a population...
...sixteenth century, said Professor Francke, was wonderfully strange and sad. At the beginning of the century Germany stood at the head of the movement for truth and light; at the end, the Catholic church was there, in the very home of Protestantism, slowly and surely gaining ground. The chief reason for this was that the question of reforming the church was becoming political. When Luther left the Diet of Worms the heart of the people went with him. Princes, cities, and peasantry all took up the new teaching. But there was no united national feeling, and the struggles of first...