Word: foremost
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...Harvard's alumni give her freedom of financial action. Let them stand behind these leaders of the University, especially behind President Eliot, the foremost citizen of this country. Only in this way can the promise of our scholarship ripen into the welcome fruits of performance...
...Cutting, who is the author of the article published today, is one of the foremost citizens of New York. He was born in New York in 1852, and has spent his entire life in the metropolis. He is President of the New York Trade School, the New York Citizens' Union, and the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor...
...purely graduate school. Its graduates will have in addition to their technical equipment, the broadening influence of a college education which counteracts the restrictions of a rigid technical training. Under its present able administration and aided by the McKay bequest, the engineering department should take its place among the foremost institutions of applied engineering in the country. In this development the almuni organization should take an important part. Similar organizations have been successful in the Law and Medical Schools, and, if they are not responsible for the high position of these departments, they certainly exert a quiet but far-reaching...
...long stretch beyond the second bend. On account of the roughness of the water and the strength of the head-wind against which the crews had to contend, the rowing was not as good as might have been hoped. Owing to the fact that the men in the foremost boats were unable to hear the pistol fired from the launch, the starts in both divisions were unfair. In the case of the second division, the pistol was fired before two of the crews had reached their buoys. Only one bump was made in each division yesterday and none...
Professor T. A. Jaggar '93, recently a professor of geology in the University, and the foremost authority on earthquakes and volcanoes, returned yesterday to take up his new work with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology after a long expedition of scientific research among the Aleutian. Islands, Special attention was paid to volcanoes on this trip. It has been learned that these islands in the northern Pacific are more volcanic than any other district of the globe...