Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...best runners in the East will compete in the 28th annual B. A. A. Meet which will start at the Mechanics Building tonight at 7.45 o'clock. The interest of the University is centered in the races of the three relay teams representing it. Foremost among these is the final race of the evening, the long distance relay with Yale in which each runner covers 780 yards. Yale has a strong team and is out to make up for last year's race which was won by the University when Captain Bingham beat Overton to the last corner...
...instructor in English composition Barrett Wendell was probably the foremost of Americans. His textbook, which has generally supplanted the old rule of thumb volumes that made composition one of the dryest of studies, is itself an entertaining literary work. He has endeavored, with considerable success, to make writing a pleasure rather than a task...
...years been noted for the great teachers and scholars which are numbered among her professors. During the last decade many of her most renowned and valuable professors have been lost for unavoidable reasons. Harvard must fill the vacancies made by the loss of these men with the foremost teachers and professors of the literary and scientific worlds. How is this to be done? The standard of the Harvard Faculty can only be maintained by increasing the salaries of its members to a living scale and one that is proportionate to the increased earning powers of other professions and trades. Although...
...extraordinary mass of evidence bearing on ghosts, telepathy and other manifestations of the occult. Various theories have been elaborated which attempt to explain what are regarded as incontestable facts, but so far with no very satisfactory result. The membership roll of the Society has included many of England's foremost men, Henry Sedgwick, A. J. Balfour, Sir Oliver Lodge, Sir William Crookes, Lord Rayleigh, Alfred Russell Wallace and Professor Gilbert Murray...
Harvard has occupied the foremost place in American college hockey during the past nineteen years. Crimson teams have set the standard to which any team that desires a championship must conform, while the style of play which Coach Winsor has so ably developed is being adopted by the leading college teams...