Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...easy to exaggerate the amount of "gerund-grinding" done in college courses. Professors usually enjoy this work no more than students; and those who have taken courses in the University beyond the necessarily irksome one dealing with Xenophon's daily progress know that the human and literary side of the classics form the greatest part of the interest of the instructor. It is, however, true that most men have not the time, or think they have not the time, to study the classics in the original language. There is a course on Greek tragedy for upper-classmen conducted in English...
...capable of making the greatest denial of self that men can make; they paid away their own life that the life of their fellows might be happy. To put into words the reverence that we owe to the young who have worked and suffered and died for us is beyond our powers...
...choppy throughout, with the centres lagging behind and the wings repeatedly losing chances to score by their failure to cover the rebounds. Baker almost scored early in the scrimmage, but Abbott made a good stop, and finally Percy tallied the first goal on a long, low shot from beyond the outer defence. Doty made two or three good rushes up the rink, scoring on one of these when his shot bounded off Abbott's guards and hitting his skate slid behind the posts...
...believe that a great many of these same men can be had for an entire year of training, namely, the year after graduation from college, or if education is not carried beyond the high school, the year after graduating from high school...
...scholar whose name appears on no University record besides this list and the Directory, may have varied tastes; the drama, or music, or attempting to create literature may be his humanizing hobbies. And the football player may be a grind as well as the scholar,--if he cannot see beyond the gridiron. But what shall be said of the remaining class, those who are neither "active" nor studious,--and that from their own choice or inertia...