Word: foremost
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...BLee-ve It!," whether it was to bring up issues like racism and dying young or to discuss why "Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire?" sucks. After sportswriting for eight years, I've discovered a few things--first, that sports are about people, because athletes are first and foremost humans; second, sports aren't all that important in the big scheme of things, but they help us understand the big scheme of things...
...founders say leaving a permanent mark on the student group landscape was foremost in their minds when they started out. But now that they are graduating, they are becoming more aware of the impact their groups have had, and more interested in seeing them flourish for a long time...
...years, they have shared the same patch of land by the Charles, cooperating to become the foremost university and the foremost university town in the world...
...promotion of student-run businesses--through which students may enter the University to gain in profits as well as wisdom--inevitably conjures up the spectre of crass, unlearned, Visigothic commercial interests laying siege to the ivory tower of liberal arts education. However, although it is first and foremost an institution of arts and sciences, the College is aware that most students would like later to find gainful employment. The technology institute may, very much like the Institute of Politics and the Office of Career Services, benefit students by promoting activity in a non-academic field that augments the academic experience...
Looking ahead, it is our hope that the future leader of Harvard will take advantage of the University's present fiscal security and broaden the scope of the office beyond that of fundraising and managing administrative affairs. First and foremost, we believe that a university president should present a sweeping vision of how young men and women should be educated--the sort of vision that breathed life into the tenures of past Harvard presidents, Charles W. Eliot 1853, A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877 and Derek...