Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...amateur undergraduate team, like itself, would very likely have won. It may, however, well be doubted whether Harvard beaten has not a more honorable record than Princeton victorious. But enough of what is passed; there is work ahead which we must undertake. Harvard has stood foremost this year in an endeavor to uproot professionalism from college athletics. It is her duty to continue that endeavor. If possible, indeed, she should protest Princeton's doubtful players again, not of course to cancel their work in Saturday's game, but to hinder them from playing during the remainder of the season...
Besides being the oldest athletic contest between Harvard and Yale the boat race has always held the foremost place. A victory in this event is more coveted than is any contest of the year In it the athletic interest of the year culminates, a victory being the greatest glory and defeat the greatest disappointment. We look forward to the race this year with confidence and well earned victory may check the decline of Harvard's athletic prestige that reawaken the old-time enthusiasm which will bring success in the other branches of athletics next year...
...opposing the whole question and also the action taken by the meeting last evening we are positive that we are representing college opinion, and that is our duty first and foremost...
...proposed to name the women's annex to Columbia College for the venerable Dr. Barnard, the president of Columbia, who has been foremost in advocating equal educational opportunities for both men and women...
Ginn and Co. have just issued a new edition of Allen and Greenough's Latin Grammar revised by Mr. George L. Kittredge, former professor of Latin at Phillips Exeter Academy. Mr. Kittredge is at present connected with the English department of Harvard, and is one of the foremost scholars of the country...