Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Underlying this activity for Harvard there was a motive, so strong that, in spite of doctors' orders, he made trips to Cambridge to speak before Memorial Day gatherings and each new Freshman class. The triumph of this motive made him a master financier and the foremost private citizen of the Commonwealth. He desired "men who could be trusted." What could not be done if we worked entirely with trustworthy men? Only with such did he deal; and in so far as he could, he labored that all Harvard men should "remain within the truth." In his address to the Class...
...clock this afternoon the University lacrosse team will open its season in a game with the Boston Lacrosse Club on Soldiers Field. This club is composed of former University lacrosse team men, and has among its number some of the foremost lacrosse men of the country. The somewhat inexperienced twelve will, it is expected, prove outclassed by the graduates. Coach Cochran will play for the visitors. Other of their stars include P. Gustafson, former Harvard star, and at present acknowleged one of the first four lacrosse experts of the country...
...mass meeting at the Union last night, William Roscoe Thayer '81, Roosevelt's college friend and foremost biographer, traced the main events of the Colonel's career, and closed with an cloquent plca that all Harvard men subscribe to the Roosevelt Memorial Fund, no matter how small their contributions. J. G. King, Jr., '20, Chairman of the Harvard Committee for the Roosevelt Memorial Fund, followed with an appeal for further support of the drive, and pledges were distributed throughout the audience. After a moving picture of various haunts and friends of Roosevelt in the West, it was found that...
William Roscoe Thayer '81 will be the chief speaker at the meeting to be held in honor of Theodore Roosevelt '80 in the Living Room of the Union tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. Mr. Thayer, who is considered foremost of Roosevelt's biographers, will speak on "Some Interesting Incidents in Roosevelt's Career." Following this, there will be a two-reel moving picture entitled "Through the Roosevelt Country with Roosevelt's Friends." All members of the Union are invited and will be admitted upon showing their membership cards...
...meeting will be held in honor of Theodore Roosevelt '80 in the Living Room of the Union on next Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock. William Roscoe Thayer '81, foremost of Roosevelt's biographers will deliver the principal address, speaking on "Some Interesting Incidents in Roosevelt's Career...