Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...just about a year since Harvard men heard with regret that Dean Briggs had resigned. Now they learn that Professor Albert Bushnell Hart has announced his withdrawal from active teaching. Within the span of twelve months the University has lost two of its foremost standard bearers...
...first incumbent of the Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry, established last spring by Mr. C. Chauncey Stillman '98, will be Professor Gilbert Murray of Oxford University, one of the world's foremost classical scholars, famous for his translations of Greek poetry into English rhyming verse. The noted English man of letters will come to the University next fall and will be in residence in Cambridge until Christmas...
That strange character of the early Renaissance whose versatility rivals that of Leonardo, Leone Battista Alberti, is to be the subject of Professor Edgell's lecture at noon today in Robinson Hall to his students and vagabonds in Fine Arts 7a. Alberti was one of the foremost organists of his day: he wrote Latin verses with ease and skill: his Della Statua is one of the earliest critical works on sculpture, as is his De Pictura on the art of painting. It is his fame as an architect, however, that has best survived, and it is of this phase...
...Michael Arlen's green-hatted lady. Visitors last winter in the Bahamas saw her parade the beach in pink bathing pajamas, and one night dance in the sand around a palm-shadowed driftwood blaze, a barefooted nymph of the tropics. Madonna, nun, nymph, notable, she is first and foremost a young lady in love with life...
Married. Miss Kathleen McKane, unquestionably Britain's foremost woman tennis player, to L. A. Godfree, noted British Davis Cup star; at Kimberley, while touring South Africa with a British tennis team of which Mr. Godfree is captain...