Word: foremost
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...freshman class seem to think, and if the team goes into the game with a fixed determination to win, and not in a faint-hearted spirit, there are good grounds for believing that the freshmen may wrest a hard-contested victory from an Academy which now holds the foremost place in foot-ball among the preparatory schools of New England...
...striking contrast to Harvard's defeats last year in athletics are the victories of our representatives in field sports; and foremost among these is the remarkable record of Mr. Wendell Baker, who may be justly called the champion amateur sprint runner of the world. The honor to Harvard and the pride which we must all feel alike in this success may alleviate in some degree the melancholy aspect of our other athletic sports. The college has only to regret that Mr. Baker has decided to allow the end of his college course likewise to end his career as a runner...
...Jones' work. The resignation of the permanent instructor will undoubtedly act as a serious drawback to the work in elocution for the future. It will be almost impossible to fill Mr. Jones' place, as he is to-day ranked with Hibbard, Cunnock, and Churchill, as one of the foremost exponents of vocal expression. John McCullough and Mary Anderson studied with him, and it is understood that many flattering offers have successively been made to induce him to leave Harvard and give his work a broader basis. With his resignation elocution will for a time be abolished here...
Fifth, the character of the debates has been considerably high. Far from "stuttering incoherence," as the Advocate charges, the meetings have been graced by the principal disputations of some of the foremost men in the University, as the CRIMSON files will show...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - On reading the communication in your issue of yesterday one does not know whether to feel resentment at the uncalled-for insult offered to one of the foremost citizens of Massachusetts, or pity for the littleness of the man who must have listened to an extremely eloquent, manly and useful lecture, solely for the purpose of finding something to criticise. Our "Mugwump" is sorry "that Mr. Lodge could give us no better advice than that the doctrine of expediency should be our rule of life." There was nothing in the lecture which admits of such a construction...