Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...2tNEXT Monday night, in "Girofle-Girofla," Mr. Richie Ling, Lillian Russell's leading tenor, will make his first appearance in Boston at the Castle Square Theatre. Mr. Ling's engagement at this theatre is for the summer. He is the foremost lyric tenor in the country. The other parts will be taken as follows: Girofle-Girofla, Miss Eissing; Aurore, Miss Gaillard; Don Bolero d'Alcarazas, Mr. Arthur Wooley; Mourzouk, Mr. William Wolff; Paquita, Miss Marie Mulle Bell; Pedro, Mr. Francis Gaillard...
...cricket team composed of past and present players from Cambridge University will visit the United States this season. The eleven will include some of the foremost cricketers of England, who, since leaving college, have gone rapidly to the front, and it will probably prove the strongest amateur eleven that has ever been seen in this country. The team will leave England about the last of August...
...college room can begin to appreciate the discomforts which go with it. If the sickness is contagious, these are aggravated almost beyond the limit of patient endurance. To the sick man many comforts are necessary which the same man in perfect health is able and contented to do without. Foremost of these is palatable and wholesome food; yet the long distance which food must be carried is generally enough to deprive it of any quality which might tempt the appetite. The solitude which is the necessary accompaniment of a contagious disease is also far from aiding a speedy convalescence...
...should hold so nearly a monopoly of it as he does today. Such prominence as is now the reward of success in athletics is harmful both to him who receives it and to those who accord it to him. It tends to pervert the ideals which should be foremost in the minds of those who are pursuing a collegiate education...
...Natural History of New England will be given at 8 o'clock this evening in the geological lecture room of the University museum on Oxford street. Mr. Garman will speak on "The Reptiles and Batrachians of New England," a subject in which he is one of the foremost authorities. The lecture will be illustrated by diagrams and specimens...