Word: forefront
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...choice of a college today is practically never made by a student because of what the college teaches or because of how the college teaches or because of who teaches at the colege. Yet somehow these considerations must be put in the forefront when the decision as to what college to choose is made. The relation between parents and students is here important. The choice of one's college in a continental system of education like the United States affords a large variety in the decision. And there should be greater systematic inquiry than there is as to the type...
...have increased 50%, living expenses 78%. Minimum increase of salary under the proposed budget will be $221,000. Yale has 32,000 living alumni, of whom the press noted three-Chauncey Mitchell Depew, '56, Arthur Twining Hadley, '76, William Howard Taft, '78-as in the forefront of the drive. But, as everyone knows, a University drive depends for its success primarily upon the wits, the diplomacy, the oratory, the industry, of its President-in this case, James Rowland Angell, smart son of a smart father, the late famed President James Burrill Angell of the University of Michigan...
Harvard and Johns Hopkins stand, with very little company, at the forefront of higher education in the U. S.-for research, for great teachers, for liberal and progressive educational policies. It is notable to behold those policies, so far as they are brought about by boards of trustees, being furthered by the country's highest type of "captain of industry"; notable to behold two men, who have made very definite contributions to what the country economically is, now in their graying prime bringing an intellectual increment to what the country, culturally, shall...
Mayor-elect Nichols has been in politics for many years. The political success that has attended him almost since he graduated from Harvard was in the forefront of the Boston mayoralty fight Tuesday. Mr. Nichols, one of a field of ten struggling candidates, emerged an easy victor. His plurality of 21,790 votes is the largest received by any candidate for the office in many years...
Federal Council. The election of Bishop Murray was the more acclaimed because he has never sought reflected splendor. Neither has Bishop Brent, although for many years he has been conspicuously in the forefront of public and ecclesiastical affairs in the U. S., in Asia, in Europe. If he felt disappointment at failure to receive the honor which many thought should be his, it was trifling compared with the disappointment, which he probably expected and which he emphatically received on the following...