Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Kineo i' the foremost of the fight...
...every legitimate effort to maintain English as a required study. Surely nothing is more important than that one understands as thoroughly as maybe his own language; and when the gross ignorance of English even among college-bred men is considered, it becomes a matter of grave moment that Harvard, foremost in so many things, should not be backward in undertaking a change for the better in this direction...
...cotemporary's editorial wrath, was only meant to suggest that a club formed at Harvard would do well to ask its members to join the New Shakspere Society. The reasons that make such a request not improper are briefly these: The New Shakspere Society numbers among its supporters the foremost Shaksperian scholars on both sides the water. At its meetings, valuable papers are read, and important questions discussed, and reports of the proceedings are forwarded to the members. Thus, by joining the Society, one obtains the larger part of all that is best and freshest in the line of Shakspere...
...Comment. Mr. D-er is indisputably and without contradiction the foremost champion of Greek progress in College, remembering, of course, that the other instructors in the Greek department have equal claims on our recognition. He stands, indubitably and without any doubt, at the head of all the younger instructors, and we venture the prediction that his lecture will prove a powerful stimulus to all lovers of art. Fine arts men, we hope, particularly, will turn out and show that Harvard indifference is a myth...
...from the students at large, and if it is shown, they naturally look for corresponding hard work on the part of our representative athletes. On this account we are averse to wholesale praise and to wholesale blame of the Nine, and we firmly believe that, if those who are foremost in circulating derogatory reports would put them in the shape of judicious suggestions to those connected with base ball, more good would result...