Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University will celebrate the six hundredth anniversary of the death of Dante on Monday afternoon, October 17, at 5 o'clock, at Sanders Theatre. Professor C. H. Grandgent '83, professor of Romance Languages at the University, and one of the foremost authorities on the work of the great poet, has been chosen to give the address, and the Glee Club will sing two of the pieces sung by them at Dante's tomb in Ravenna during their European trip. President Lowell will preside...
Regal and Moore, "late of Ed Wynn's Carnival", gave their acrobatic and dancing act--clever acrobatics enlivened with plenty of humor. Followed Belle Storey, "America's foremost Coloratura Soprano". Marvel of marvels, she is not only possessed of a voice and evidently has heard the English language spoken, but she is an extremely pleasant object for contemplation. We had thought that all good singers must be built on the pouter pigeon model and Miss Storey was an agreeable surprise...
...famous woman in the world, some have said, is Madame Curie, who honors the University with a visit next Monday. Partly because the world still clings to the absurd idea that any woman scientist is an extraordinary person, but chiefly because in Madame Curie it recognizes one of the foremost chemists of all time, her visit to this country has been one round of applause. We Americans have a way of exhausting our distinguished visitors with an elaborate program of events, accompanied by crowds of curious onlookers. Even the Prince of Wales, it is said, found his American tour...
...that a continued string of cuts is advocated; that were folly of the worst sort. But surely full credit should be given for work accomplished and knowledge gained. The class-room is, first and foremost, a place in which something is learned. And a mark should be the testament of knowledge of the course, not the representation of the professor's personal feelings. Universities have long since outgrown the "little red school-house"; the schoolmaster attitude should also be a thing of the past...
...Hundred Voices" is a volume of translations from Greek by A. E. Phoutrides '11. The author of the Greek is Kostes Palamas, the foremost literary man in modern Greece, and a leading contemporary poet. He is secretary of the University at Athens, and is known as one of the most prominent liberals in Europe. Mr. Phoutrides was an instructor in the University 1916-17. He was appointed professor of the Classics at Athens two years ago, but stayed in this country on a mission from the Greek Government. He was a firm adherent of of the Venizelos ministry...