Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...well to remember that they will not be admitted to seats on the floor if accompanied simply by friends. The opportunity of listening to so eminent a man as Professor Drummond is a rare one, even at Harvard where we enjoy unusual privileges in hearing many of the foremost thinkers of the age. It is an opportunity, however, designed primarily for the students themselves and the college authorities by reserving the floor for the students and their relatives alone are acting only for the interests of the University itself...
...arranging a course of sermons to be held on Sundays during the spring term. It implies an activity which has been wanting in recent years and promises that the Society may once more revive its usefulness. The list of men to address the meetings includes some of the foremost preachers in the Episcopal Church to-day. They are men whom the college will care to hear and in point of attendance at least the course ought to be a marked success. The St. Paul's Society has a place to fill in the University. It has failed in the past...
...medicine which he resigned in 1874. Among his colleagues were Drs. O. W. Holmes, H. O. Bowditch. and H. J Bigelow. He was president of the Massachusetts Medical Society from 1872 to 1874, and was also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was the foremost layman in the diocese of Massachusetts and was almost 50 years a delegate to the Episcopal conventions. About 1845 with some friends he established the Church of the Advent and has been very closely identified with it ever since. His interest in educational affairs led him in 1856 to found...
...perturbations being almost imperceptible. The ancients had a general idea of the attraction of the heavenly bodies. Their speculations about the orbils were not correct. With the revival of learning in the middle ages came a renewed attention to the investigation of astronomy. Copernicus, Tycho and Kepler were the foremost students. Copernicus renewed the rejected idea that the sun was the centre of the system of planets. Tycho, a rich nobleman in Denmark, established the first observatory. Kepler investigated he careful observations and deduced the fact that the planets moved in ellipses; he established "Kepler's Laws...
...midst of this age of Queen Anne, Pope stood out as the foremost literary man. It was a time of sharp struggle between the Whigs and the Tories and each party, eager to strengthen its position, did its best to draw into its ranks the leading men. The leading writers especially were sought, for political pamphlets had much to do in swaying the popular mind. In this way such men as Newton, Steele, Prior and Addison found their way into high offices under the government...