Word: surpassed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...time being as well as to the amount of interest shown by different classes in college. There is no reason, however, why this year, Harvard college, with its largely increased size should not find it to its interest and convenience to support and maintain a reading-room which shall surpass in its size and general accommodations all previous institutions of the kind seen at Harvard or at any other college. Yale has a reading-room of the very first-class, largely patronized by all the students. It is true that at Yale the college itself bears the larger proportion...
...that I know how difficult it is to get words, I wish the music had been published earlier, but I have confidence in the musical ability of our class and I think that the rehearsals which we shall have next week will equal in number, and very likely surpass in effect, the rehearsals of '82. I hope that this explanation will serve as a partial justification in the eyes of my brother of '83, who is rightly disturbed at my very unfortunate tardiness...
...opportunities. She listens to the same lectures as the men, recites in the same classes and passes the same examinations, usually with more satisfactory results. The young women are said to excel especially in languages and studies not requiring great breadth or depth of thought, while the men surpass them in heavier work involving original methods. As a rule the young ladies who are willing to spend what are usually considered the most interesting four years of life, at college, have too earnest a purpose in view to be easily turned aside from its accomplishment. Having no athletic interest...
...Yale rehearsals of "Faust," which is to be performed April 16, 18 and 20, are progressing favorably, and it is predicted that the production will surpass anything ever given by amateurs in New Haven...
...vicinity of New York city, have recently been made public. The design is large and comprehensive, and it is expected that the result will be the foundation of a sectarian university "that shall equal Yale and Harvard in equipments, finish and range of studies, while it shall surpass them in thoroughness and depth." Such is the project now under consideration. Its chief promoter, with, it is understood, the consent and encouragement of the Catholic hierarchy in the United States, is Bishop Spalding, of Peoria, one of the youngest, most brilliant and most energetic of American Catholic bishops...