Word: foremost
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...Walsh is one of the foremost Catholic authors of America as well as a scholarly, eloquent and entertaining speaker. His works, which have been publicly commended by Cardinal Merry del Val for their strong defence of Catholic Truth, include. "The Catholic Churchmen in Science." "The Story of Makers of Modern Medicine," and "The Popes and Science," all dealing with the great part which the Catholic Church has taken in enlightening the world...
After attending the Universities of New York and Chicago. Professor Rhodes entered business, but soon retired and moved to Boston, and soon began writing history. He has now become the foremost writer of history of the United States, and has recently completed his greatest work. "The History of the United States since the Compromise of 1850." The degree of I.L.D. has been conferred upon him by Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and other universities. President Eliot's words, in delivering the degree, were: "The historian of the slavery debate, and of the Civil War and its issues; and accurate and impartial delineator...
Professor Zueblin's lectures are over, but their memory will long be with us. He has summed up and placed before us in a clear and tangible form the problems which, in a general sort of way, have long been foremost in our minds. He has touched every side of life in a straightforward and manly way, adding by his won personality an irresistible charm to the breadth of his absorbing subject. For an organized society he has made a special appeal, and we of Harvard can appreciate his earnest deprecation of its fragmentary nature. We have long appreciated...
...selected by the Faculty of Northwestern University to deliver the N. W. Harris course of six lectures at that University this spring, from April 9 to 14 inclusive. This course was founded a little over a year ago from a bequest of Mr. Norman W. Harris, one of the foremost bankers of Chicago, and a trustee of Northwestern University, with the purpose "to stimulate scientific research of the highest type and bring the results before the students and friends of Northwestern University, and, through them, to all the world." By scientific research, is meant "scholarly investigation into any department...
...Edwin Cull Howell '83 died last Monday at the home of his brother in Gwathmey, Virginia, at the age of 47 years. Mr. Howell was one of the foremost American authorities on whist, and was the author of "Howell's Whist Openings," and "The Howell Method of Duplicate Whist." When in College he was honor man in mathematics and for several years after graduation taught mathematics at Johns Hopkins University...