Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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President White, of Cornell, has long been recognized as one of the foremost educators in this country. In an address, delivered some few days ago at the lying of the corner stone of a student society hall, he took occasion to make some statements, which, on that account, deserve attention. "The problem of housing students." he says especially in American universities, has long been a serious one. To coop them up in large dormitories or barracks, with possibly a tutor or young professor to act as policeman over them, has always been a fruitful cause of disorder. So fully...
...Harvard school of veterinary medicine than the prevalence of the foot and mouth disease among cattle in this country. * * * For several years no serious thought has been turned to the complaints of animals, because no contagious disease has prevailed widely in this country. Now, however, the matter is a foremost topic. Educated men are called upon to deal with the crisis, and it is the Harvard school which will be looked to for educated veterinary surgeons. [Advertiser...
...system, those sports have many objects, that of school day-recess amusement, not by any means being the only one. The opportunity for and impetus to systematic physical training we regard not as the least of these. Indeed it would not be wrong to consider this their foremost object, if sometimes an object not fully avowed. This element in athletics the Advertiser entirely leaves out of account. "But the growth of the professional spirit has gone," it says, "so far that the idea of playing any game except for the purpose of beating, seems to an undergraduate simply absurd." This...
Germany possesses the most famous scholars in petrography, among whom are Rosenbursch, Zirkel and Cohen. The foremost scholars in America are Drs. G. W. Hawes and M. E. Wadsworth, the latter being professor of petrography here at Harvard, which is the only American college employing a professor of petrography exclusively. The present chair is maintained by the generosity of Prof. J. D. Whitney, the geologist...
...possible over Canada; not to make them the privilege of the few and wealthy. In this way they were not following the old English universities, but those which had left on the Scottish character an impress which was ineffaceable, and which had contributed to place Scotsmen in the foremost place in every country they visited. He was also struck by the elasticity of their system. By allowing advanced students to be examined in either literature, mathematics, or mental or moral science, they were singularly fortunate in avoiding two extremes, making their university neither an agglomeration of technical schools...