Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...victories, the foundation for great teams was being laid. On December 1, 1923, nearly 100 track men crowded the Varsity Club to hear W. J. Bingham '16 make his last speech as head track coach. "In the last two years," he said, "we have learned many things--first and foremost, that in order to assure the success of a track team it is necessary to develop not stars but a large body of runners, taking men who perhaps have never run before and, overcoming their initial discouragements, bring before them the motto of the Harvard track team--Progress." Following...
Bravest of martyrs, John Huss (c. 1373-1415) was the foremost intermediary in passing on from English Wycliffe to German Luther the torch which eventually kindled the Reformation. As such, he himself became physically a torch, burned at the stake for heresy with ecstatic words upon his lips: "In the truth of that gospel which ... I have written, taught and preached, I now joyfully die!" Such a spirit, rekindled in Czechoslovakia, stands to them for all that has cloven their new, secular republic away from the Holy and Apostolic and Most Catholic oppressions of the fallen House of Habsburg...
...critical inspection. The fashionable institutions, according to his speech, may survive for some time because of their reputations, but unless they approach the educational merits offered by their rivals, they will fall into grave danger. All of which sounds well, but means little. Being president of one of our foremost exclusive universities, Mr. Lowell is in a position to make such a statement without laying himself open to accusations of envy and pride, but we wonder if he has any very clear idea of the "educational merits" of the schools outside the social register...
...Foremost in interest among the exhibits is a series of letters to Miss Amy Lowell, one of which is a letter of thanks for her gift of her two-volume biography of John Keats. "You must not take any notice," writes Hardy, "of what the funny men of the newspapers say about the size of it and so forth; that's how they are, and it never makes any difference...
Excess Baggage. This romance of a tightrope walker proved agreeable. Vaudeville slang and another peek into the no longer private lives of stage people were foremost factors. The hitherto useless wife of the tight-rope man suddenly became a famous movie star. She went slack on her marital obligations, one of which was to stand at the stage end of the tightrope when her husband took his famed slide from the balcony. In her absence, he took the slide (in full view of the audience) and crashed. She hurried out to pick up the pieces; love bloomed anew...