Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Building on the foundation of the elective system Mr. Lowell has created what may well be later considered his chief claim to fame as a foremost educator, the system of concentration and distribution, of general examinations, and a modified tutorial plan. Under him Harvard has been a pioneer in this field. The system is too well known to warrant discussion here but it is interesting to note that an examination of his annual reports shows a broad conception of its development from the very beginning of his administration. In the 1909 report he writes, in explaining the new concentration...
...more than any other single individual to mold the destinies of Harvard. The work has been painstaking and complete and the CRIMSON is now ready to publish what it considers to be in a small way a memorial to the man it recognizes in this fashion. Some of the foremost educators of the country including among their number close personal friends of Charles William Eliot have contributed essays and tributes, and several editors of the CRIMSON have attempted to express undergraduate appreciation...
...further experiment not yet begun is the plan of a college without trustees or president and administered on liberal and democratic terms. Tentative efforts have already been made for its founding. In the West the old Claremont Colleges in California, with their program recently announced, stand out as foremost examples of what is going on. Unnamed new colleges are being cut out of whole cloth; and the old educational world is watching in order to see whether the pattern will tell us anything. For we are all convinced that some of the old fashions are outworn...
...Claude Monet, an old man of 86 and foremost French landscape painter, passed away at his home in Giveney, France...
...corruption in the government. A trial like this illuminates the kind of corruption existing in the government during the last few years. It is an astounding spectacle to see the Attorney General and the Secretary of the Interior called on the stand for serious crime. Some of the foremost oil-magnates have also been called...