Word: foremost
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Longfellow and Hawthorne were graduated from Bowdoin a century ago, in commemoration of which event their alma mater has just held an institute of modern literature, attended by a score of America's foremost poets, novelists, dramatists, essayists, and scholars. The aim of this institute was to stimulate creative and artistic endeavor, especially in the colleges of New England--a memorial most in keeping with the spirit and achievement of these great figures...
...have already won fame for her as a scholar. The fact that she has championed the more radical tendencies in modern poetical form has denied her the same fame as a creative artist, but the consensus of opinion among literary critics of the day stamps her as America's foremost living poet...
...Edgett '94, of the Boston Transcript Literary staff, who has followed her works closely commented as follows: "Miss Lowell was America's foremost living poet. Her recent authoritative work on Keats gave her a still greater position in the world of letters. Her marvelous personality was widely known on both sides of the Atlantic...
...Club received a fitting tribute yesterday from Mr. Koussevitzky as a result of a series of brilliant public concerts given in Symphony Hall during the past year. Last spring, the rendering of Beethoven's "Ninth Symphony" was heralded a great achievement and established the organization as one of the foremost male choruses in America. The acclaim with which the recent performance of Brahms's "Requiem" was grooted, marks, however, a still greater triumph M. Koussevitzky paid the Glee Club a signal honor by acting as is cost conductor; now he adds his high praise in words which carry the weight...
...Lawrence," declared Professor Lowes, "is in my estimation the foremost scholar of the world on the subject of Elizabethan drama. It is by the greatest good fortune that we have been able to procure his services for the University...