Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...George A. Gordon, D.D., '81, of Boston, will speak before the Divinity Club on "The Intellectual Life of the Minister," this evening at 8 o'clock in the Common Room of Divinity Hall. Dr. Gordon, who is one of the foremost scholars in the ministry in New England, was the University preacher from 1886-90, and is now a member of the Board of Overseers. He has been the minister of the Old South Church, Boston, since 1884, and is the author of "The Christ of Today" and "The New Epoch for Faith...
...with the writer of the communication that some recognition of it would be appropriate. The Harvard Union, as its name implies, is the proper place for such a symbol and we heartily indorse the suggestion that pictures be hung there of the two men who, on opposing sides, were foremost in the struggle for what they believed was right...
Likewise, this change in viewpoint has resulted in changes in our religious thinking. Today a man should hold first and foremost in his ideals the welfare and salvation of the community in which he has been placed. The call of God to you is not so much to save your souls, but to strive to bring in God's Kingdom, as we think of it in Heaven, by ministering to the needs of our own communities. In this twentieth century, do not judge a man by what he thinks or feels but by what he is and is doing...
Professor Langdell was famous as the originator of the "case-system" of teaching law, which has now supplanted the older text-book method in nearly all the large law schools in the country. The accomplishment of this work makes him one of the foremost of the men to whom the great advance and progress of the University during the last thirty-five years...
Hurdling in the open is jumping over or attempting to jump over an opponent who is still on his feet. Hurdling in the line is jumping over, or attenpting to jump over, a player on the line of scrimmage, with the feet or knees foremost, within the distance of five yards on either side of the point where the ball was put in play. Penalty.-Loss of 15 yards...