Word: foremost
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...Doumic 's presence at Harvard is an event of importance in the literary history of the University. Although a comparatively young man, he has met with such unexampled success in his chosen profession that he now occupies a position among the foremost French critics. Born in 1860, he was educated at the Lycee Condorcet, graduating with prizes in rhetoric. Continuing his studies he graduated from the Superior Normal School in 1882 with the first prize in the examination for the literary fellowship. Soon after, in 1883, he was appointed professor of rhetoric at Stanislaus College, a position which...
...Samuel B. Capen, ex-president of the Boston School Board, president of the Municipal League, and one of the foremost citizens of greater Boston, will speak before the union this evening at 744 Mass. avenue, Cambridgeport, at 7.45. Mr. Capen's subject will be, "Good Citizenship." These Wednesday evening lectures are free to men. Harvard men are invited...
...deeply concerned in all that concerns the honor and credit of Harvard University. It is a sense of personal gratification, whenever I hear that in scholarship, in public life, or in athletics, a foremost stand has been taken by a Harvard man. In athletics or in anything else, so long as something worthy of the honor of Harvard is in a man's keeping, so long as the man who represents Harvard carries with him the feeling that part of Harvard's fame is his, so long as he remembers that the next thing to victory is honorable defeat...
With interests many and wide, for many years a prominent figure in Boston business and society, Colonel Forbes bore worthily a name that has been among the foremost and best in the life and progress of several generations...
Faculty, and was universally considered one of the foremost classical scholars in America...