Word: foremost
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...would be surprising, if it had not come to be such a matter of course, to find the foremost college in the country offering instruction in such an elementary field as is covered by English A. That part of the course which deals with the history of English literature is, indeed, not out of place; but it is little less than absurd that freshmen at Harvard should have to be instructed in the first principles of composition, or, to put it with painful simplicity, should have to be taught to write even fairly well. And to write what? The absurdity...
...play from the pen of Henry Arthur Jones. Mr. Drew will also be seen in another new piece, the work of Madeline Lucette, and entitled "Christopher, Jr." as well as in a brilliant revival of his last season's success, "The Butterflies," and other plays. Mr. Drew stands foremost in the rank of light comedians, nor is it hard to explain the cause of his unquestionable popularity. He delivers his comedy lines in a rich, nonchalant manner that is characteristic of society men, club men, and men about town. His success is due in a measure to the fact that...
...President used to say that his spirit went with his students to every field of athletic struggle. It is the Yale spirit of courtesy and chivalry. Athletics are incidental. Scholarship and character are foremost. The University means study, acquirement, manhood, the Christian life. Its ideal is of noble personality, of consecrated character...
...graduates and friends of the University should look squarely in the face the deplorable facts about the Library, which is the very core of the University considered as a place of instruction, and should have a building foremost among all the University buildings in architectural importance and in just adaptation to its uses. Such buildings Cornell, Pennsylvania, Princeton, Yale, Michigan, Northwestern, and Kansas universities have obtained within the last ten years; and Columbia is preparing to make her library the central feature of the magnificent group of buildings to be erected on her new grounds. The condition of things...
Pedagogical Club.Mr. Samuel T. Dutton, Superintendent of Public Schools, Brookline, will address the Harvard Pedagogical Club today at 4.30 in Sever 11. Subject: "Some Effects of the Enrichment of the Course of Study." Mr. Dutton is one of the foremost school superintendents in New England and is an interesting and forcible speaker. He was among the first to recognize the need of enriching the elementary curriculum and he has been working for some years at the practical enrichment of the course of study in the Brookline schools, which now rank with the best in the country. All members...