Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Pennock of the Solvaye Process Company of Syracuse, N. Y., will deliver a lecture on "The Retort Coke Oven and its Chemical Products" next Friday afternoon at 4.30 in the Mineralogical Lecture Room. Mr. Pennock is one of the foremost chemists of the country. The lecture will be delivered before a meeting of the Mining Club, but will be open to all members of the University, and all men interested in mining or chemistry are especially urged to attent...
...book is of especial value to students of philosophy in its history, for Shaftesbury is still regarded as the foremost English disciple of the so-called philosophy of the porch...
...Supreme Court to the South. When at last it grew clearer that the slave labor could not compete on equal terms with free labor and that it was impossible to give salve labor a free chance in the territories, the theory of secession became at once the foremost subject of discussion. So perfect was the unanimity and solidity of the people, that within a hundred days from the election of Lincoln they were seated in the provisional congress of a new government. Masters so long, they were masterful...
...individual trails, the attempt to make education less forbidding, carried too far has resulted in robbing education of much of its mental discipline. The children brought up "along the lines of least resistance" are most often the intellectually spoiled children, "flabby of mind and will." "Education should first and foremost train; and training had for its very substance the overcoming of obstacles; furthermore, every specialty is better mastered, better understood in its relation to human life and achievement, by the man who has worked hard in other subjects...
...Hirsch is professor of Rabbinical Literature and Philosophy in the University of Chicago, and is one of the foremost Semitic scholars of the United States. He is a rabbi in the Hebrew Church. Dr. Hirsch graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1872. He received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Leipsic in 1876. He has edited the "Zeitgeist," of Milwaukee, the "Reformer" of New York, and the "Reform Advocate" of Chicago...