Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Bishop John A. Vincent will preach in Appleton Chapel tomorrow evening. One of the foremost bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Bishop Vincent is most noted as the originator and head of the great Chautauqua movement. He is a very brilliant speaker, and deserves a large hearing tomorrow...
Sainte Beuve was the foremost engineer in literature. He gave a new impulse to criticism and brought it up to a place of vital importance. In 1828, he published his first formal contribution to literature in the form of a criticism, the aim being to show that the early poets were the ancestors of the romanticists. In the course of the next ten years he published three volumes of poetry. Though the verses were well written and often of a religious turn of mind they did not meet with the success he had anticipated. He realized that he was intended...
...decline in American shipping is not due to lack of free registry. - (a) Foreign registry was not permitted at the time that the American merchant marine was the foremost in the land. - (b) Changes from wood to iron; sail to steam; and changes in machinery are the real causes of this decline. - (c) The civil war enabled Gt. Britain to get a long start over the United States at a critical time. - (d) Wages on Am. ships are higher. - (e) Lack of proper mail subsidies granted by our government...
...work. In the unanimous opinion of the students and of all those who have watched the athletic development at Harvard, Mr. Lathrop has done more for physical development at the University than can possibly be estimated. He has built up the department wonderfully, and today he stands as the foremost in his line of work...
Outing for May has a number of contributions which cannot but interest Harvard men. Malcolm W. Ford's article on "Sprinters and Their Methods," which occupies the place of honor, is an excellent exposition of sprinting as distinguished from long-distance running, and good descriptions are given of the foremost sprinters of the day, their modes of setting and starting, and methods of running. Among the athletes thus described are Wendell Baker '86, Luther Carey of Princeton, John Owen Jr.. of Detroit, F. Westing, and H. M. Johnson. Mr. Ford ends his article by giving some helpful hints...