Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drama, happened upon this occasionally beautiful, often bombastic, box-office piece by William Shakespeare and produced it with all the whisperings, stampings, posturings and spur-clankings that generations of Shakespearian ragpickers in the acting profession have taught people to associate with the poetry of the immortal playwright. Certainly the foremost U. S. exponent of this orthodox and dignified procedure, Walter Hampden acts with his usual authority and vigor through the crashing, sometimes too sonorous story that has been visited upon the armies at Agincourt. Henry the Fifth will especially delight those who had read their Shakespeare often and who attend...
Colonel W. K. Naylor will discuss the battle of the Marne in a lecture to be delivered in Room 110, Pierce Hall, at 10 o'clock Saturday morning. Colonel Naylor is among the foremost of the army historians and lecturers, having devoted much of his time to this sort of activity. "The Marne Miracle" is illustrated by lantern slides that show the successive situations leading up to the frustration of the German effort in 1914 almost at the gates of Paris...
...there any reason why the Filipino people should not attain such economic development? Manifestly they lack it today. . . . But the Philippine Islands are today possessed of political connections with the foremost industrial nation in the world...
...Lord '28, the foremost candidate for the catcher's berth, has been taking his turn regularly behind the bat with a recently-formed first-string infield, made up of R. E. Durkee '29, and J. A. Prior '29 alternating at the first-base position, J. J. Carver '30 at the keystone sack, R. C. Sullivan '28 at shortstop, and G. E. Donaghy '29 at the hot corner...
...Such a pedagogic bull would be a sound basis for discussion. The widely varying nature of entrance requirements in different colleges make it impossible for them to take a fixed position at present. Such delineation of public secondary school attitude should be not merely definitive, but suggestive in form. Foremost within it should be a statement of what further advance in specific fields of study the secondary school would be prepared to exchange for a cut in the over-wide requirements of college entrance under the credit system. In such a document education in general, as well as college committees...