Word: paramount
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...problematic outlook for the football season is always of paramount interest at the beginning of the college year. The presence of exceptional material never lends certainty to the final success of the team, for the possibility of serious injuries always exists. Like wise when there are few veterans included in the squad, there is always the chance of developing a high standard of team play and a spirit of fight which are often responsible for victories in the later games...
Among the forces impelling the rising tide of appreciation, the quality of the teaching body is paramount. But we cannot refrain from also mentioning the successive opening and harmonious co-operation of the hospitals in the immediate vicinity of the School buildings. The Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, the Robert Brigham, the Children's and Infant Hospitals, the Samaritan, the Cancer, and Psychiatry Hospitals, the Dental School, the Carnegie Nutrition Laboratory, and the Angell Animal Hospital are all now in active operation, clustered about the School, and the Lying-In Hospital has bought land and is about to build. These have...
...Edward Reese Roberts '16, of Cape Girardeau, Mo., last night. He upheld the affirmative of the question: "Resolved, That the policy of the French in Morocco during the present century has made due allowance for the rights of other European countries." Basing his argument on the paramount interests of France in the country, he showed how successive events have made necessary each step taken by the French, and how Germany, wishing to get control of mining concessions which her merchants had obtained from the Sultan for a nominal price, did everything she could to harass the French until she should...
Important as "making money" may be to preserve solvency or even in common estimation to measure success, mere accumulation is not the paramount object in life of the broad-minded business man. The work itself, with its responsibilities and power, its service rendered, is in large degree its own reward. The auditor of a great railway system, with a fine and sincere enthusiasm, once told me that instead of drawing a salary for his services he really ought to pay for the privilege enjoyed, of seeing, as he put it, "all the business of the road come across his desk...
...Pasteur medal was awarded to Paul Lombard Sayre '16, of Chicago, Ill., in the finals of the seventeenth annual debate, held in Emerson D last evening. Sayre supported the affirmative side of the subject: "Resolved, That the French claims to Alsace are paramount." The other speakers were M. L. Levine '18 C. A. Trafford '16, L. Brentano '18, B. E. Carter '16, P. P. Cohen '16, A. Cooper '17, and L. C. Hennin '15. Mr. E. L. Raiche, of the French department, presided, and the judges were Dr. R. L. Hawkins, of the French department; Assistant Professor W. G. Howard...