Word: beyond
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...Just not cricket" is shorthand throughout the former British Empire for behavior that, while not quite criminal, is beyond the pale of social acceptability. To Americans it may be a quaint but unfathomable game of bat and ball that can last up to five days, replete with daily breaks for luncheon and tea, without producing a result; but for the British and their erstwhile subjects cricket is more than just sport - it is a cultural ritual that encapsulates the Kiplingesque virtues of fair play, decency, subordinating one's ego to the greater good, fighting hard but fair for victory...
...cross-purposes built into Lowell's plan actually highlight the importance he wanted the Houses to have for Harvard students. Though some alumni and students--partisans of final clubs, in large part--objected to Lowell's attempt to gain control of students' lives beyond the lecture hall, his plan met with immediate success. In their first year, all of the Houses were booked full...
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...
...academic institution," says William R. Fitzsimmons '67, dean of admissions and financial aid. "At some level, one does need to be talented academically, but we've got to look so far beyond that," he says...
...beyond" means, in the rhetoric of Fitzsimmons and other admissions officers, that academics mean much less than they once...