Word: foremost
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...names are now well known for honorable achievements in literature and the fine arts. The more than liberal expenditure of time in helping others told upon the amount of his own literary production. Of his exhaustive studies, and widely-known translations, of Dante (which have international reputation as of foremost excellence) I need not speak; but serious students of the fine arts must regret that of books like "Church Building in the Middle Ages" we could not have had more. As a teacher of the History of the Fine Arts in Harvard University Professor Norton strove, by directing attention...
Dean Sabine next introduced Dean Gay of the new Graduate School of Business Administration, who spoke briefly on the new school. He gave three reasons for its being made a graduate rather than an undergraduate department: foremost, because we set the Graduate School apart, as the policy of the University; secondly, Harvard recognizes that business has a right to graduates of professional schools; and thirdly, in aim and tendency and purpose we mean to ally ourselves with research, and to search for a wider truth. We feel that in the Graduate School of Applied Science we are not giving...
Again, it often happens that a man's wealth spoils his possibilities of deep and diversified friendship. For it is among workers and never among idlers that true friendships are formed. But there are other possessions than those of money which interfere with a man's possibilities and foremost among these are intellectual possessions. These hinder the fulfillment of intellectual possibilities in three ways. First, many men of exceptional intellectual endowments waste themselves and their abilities just because their very brilliancy makes them unwilling to undergo necessary mental drudgery. Again, a man's academic possessions interfere with his possibilities when...
...interesting, in the midst of the most heated athletic discussion in which we have yet been plunged, to note the enviable serenity of our rivals. The Yale Daily News, in commenting upon the subject now foremost in all our minds, sums up the Yale position as follows: "At Yale the situation has never been much in doubt. The Faculty as a rule leaves the decision of athletic questions in the hands of the undergraduates, who would object very strongly to any curtailment of the various athletic schedules." And even if the Yale faculty did not do so, the undergraduates would...
Following the same broad lines that have made our Law School the foremost in the land, and placed our Medical School on the high road to becoming so, this University has now established a School of Business Administration. It was President Eliot who foresaw that professional schools must receive only holders of the bachelor's degrees; and to him must go the credit for the greatness of our University, which, as he himself has just said, "is the only university in the country organized on a true university basis." And the strength of our university basis is increased...