Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Yale corporation has accepted the resignation of James Dwight Dana, the oldest professor connected with the university. Professor Dana is one of the foremost American scientists, and is obliged by advanced age to abandon further work. He is eighty-one years old and graduated from Yale in the class of 1833. He returned to college as tutor and studied under Stillman the elder, and succeeded to a full professorship fifty years ago. Since then he has had full charge of the department of natural science. He has been honored by Harvard and other colleges in America and by German universities...
...Lucien Sanial of New York, who addressed the Prospect Union Wednesday night, will speak before the Cambridge Social Union this evening on "Socialism." Mr. Sanial, who is a graduate of the University of Paris, studied under Auguste Comte and is regarded as the foremost socialist of this country. He was president of the International Labor Congress at Brussels in 1891. The lecture will be given in the Social Union's rooms on Brattle Street, at 8 o'clock. All members of the University are invited to attend...
...also taken rooms elsewhere; and it has widened its scope of business so as to include not only books but furniture, men's furnishings, tailoring, and, lately, shoe-repairing. It is today one of the leading cooperative stores of any description in this country, and is, beyond question, the foremost among college cooperative societies. Its nearest rival is the society at Yale and there, so far as can be learned, hardly more than one-third the total annual business is transacted. The society here is taken as a model the country over; constantly are letters of inquiry about methods received...
...members of the undergraduate body will learn with deep regret that advancing age makes it impossible for Professor Lane to continue active service after the present year. He is one of those men who have made Harvard famous as the centre of rich scholarship. One of the foremost Latin authorities of his day, he has won high regard in the greatest intellectual centres, not only here, but also in foreign lands. And yet his achievements have never been a barrier to kindly interest in students and all their activities, and his honest and practical sympathy has endeared him to numberless...
...first and foremost of the plans for a building is the floor plan, and the architect generally has this formed and finished before he has more than a vague idea of what the elevation is to be. This plan, then, being of the first importance, should be studied in a practical way to meet the ends of the problem in hand. The first thing to be considered is the disposition of the rooms on this main floor, and of hardly less importance is the question of circulation, or the arrangement of halls and corridors so that they may connect...