Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There is among Americans a notable fondness for high-sounding names, not clearly comprehended, but forced to do service as ministers to vanity. In this service some have been racked beyond the limits of endurance. Perhaps none have suffered more than the ill-fated "university." The best of our colleges are as yet not equal to the true universities of England and Germany; but in spite of this we dub every little college with the awe-inspiring title of university, and then stand off and gaze at our work in fond admiration; and, in name at least. we place...
There are at present almost fifty socalled universities scattered throughout the United States. Most of them are not known beyond the limits of their State, and a large part of them are the inferiors of the preparatory schools of Eton and Rugby; but still we call them "universities." It is a new example of the old fable of the frog and the ox. The frog envied the size of the ox, and though that by puffing himself full of air he might become his equal. And so we see balloon-like universities springing up around us on all sides with...
...avocation is the percentage of college-bred men so small as in that of journalism, which fact has given rise to much comment in the daily press. Beyond a good knowledge of stenography, an easy style, and a fair understanding of the rudiments of grammar and rhetoric, nothing further is required of the average reporter. A man who has spent four years in acquiring a thorough college training naturally expects that what he has gained there ought to enable him to start in on a higher round of the ladder, and sets his hopes on entering some other profession...
...class which he claims to represent. In the first place I should like to ask how many college examinations our friend has gone through in the course of his long experience? Is he any exception to the rule that all school boys just out of leading-strings are beyond noticing anything in their first examination but their own chance of getting an A plus? Does the interesting fact that he would read manuscripts not addressed to him, make such an act justifiable? By what power does he voice the sentiments of the majority in college, when he probably does...
...upon attempting to raise his arm, he found it impossible, and it was soon discovered that paralysis had developed to an alarming extent, and that it was a question of but a short time, when this master mind and robust body must leave his life's work and pass beyond...