Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Storey entered the University in the fall of 1862 in the regular academic freshman class. He graduated in 1866 and began the study of law, and has risen to the foremost rank at the Massachusetts bar. He has served the University as a member of the Board of Overseers for many years...
...sacrifices the net gain since 1860-the senior year: Min. Rep., p. 15.- (d) To cause of education in general.- (I) The A. B. degree is standard of liberal education; C. W. Eliot, in Century, June, 1884, p. 203.- (2) Standard is proposed to be lowered by our foremost university...
...national legislator, he made a reputation for earnest, manly and broad statesmanship which has reflected credit upon the state which he represented. He attained the foremost rank in the legal profession in Massachusetts, and remained in active practice until his last illness...
Henry T. Coates and Co. of Philadelphia have just brought out a new translation of Edmondo de Amicis's "Spain and the Spaniards." The translation is done from the tenth edition of the Italian by Stanley R. Yarnall. De Amicis is one of the foremost Italian writers of books of travel and is already well known in this country through his works on Holland and Constantinople...
...freshman crew this year contains several men who will be heard from later. In the first and foremost place is Cadwallader, who is rowing at No. 6. He rowed on the 'varsity as substitute for some time, and is a promising oar, with size, strength and weight enough to make one of the crew as soon as there is room. Another good man is D. F. Rogers, the stroke. Hitchcock, No. 3, Marsh, the captain, and Mills at No. 7, are also men that would not be passed over as 'varsity men another year...