Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There was once a `Bell-Fire Club' but we who call ourselves enlightened have here only the St. Paul's Society, the Society of Christian Brothren, and the Y X. The first and foremost need in Cambridge is some association representing the other side of this morality question. We incline altogether too much in one direction; we are becoming too staid, too learned. Some society which can be called `The Harvard Society for the Propagation of Vice,' or `The Harvard Society for the Suppression of Virtue in Undergraduates,' ought to be established before we become too wedded...
...foremost candidate was Senator Medill McCormick of Illinois, who leaves his comrades on Mar. 4 because the Republicans of Illinois did not see fit to renominate him last year. A number of Senators spoke a good word to the President on their colleague's behalf-even Mr. Borah was reported to have done so. Yet while these movements were being made toward his appointment, others of the Senator's friends advised him against going to Germany because of the political situation in Illinois-the hope that Governor Len Small might be removed from office by court proceedings...
...quite realize that in time the Japanese people will themselves accomplish restoration of their cities and institutions which have been destroyed. However, I shall regard it as a great privilege to be permitted to hasten the day when your university, which stands among the foremost institutions of learning in the world, will again be provided with adequate library facilities...
...Amore Dei Tre Re," while based upon an Italian tragic poem, is not without its sublime beauty as set to music by Italo Montemezzi. It is justly considered, upon eminent authority, one of the finest products of modern Italian genius. Sem Benelli, one of Italy's foremost living playwrights, who wrote the poem, tells the story in a terse, swiftly moving drama coupled with music which vividly depicts events running fatefully toward an inevitable human cataclysm. While Montemezzi's score is not necessarily set to one particular melodious theme, nevertheless there is a succession of musical phrases that clothe...
...Wisconsin University. The suggestion is flattering, but the offer itself may be ominous. The rumor alone must make the University anxious to tie closer a man whose reputation as a scholar does honor to Harvard and whose efforts as an administrator have placed the Law School among the foremost in the world...