Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whether, at the end of ten years of development of the student body along its present lines, there will be enough men of the calibre required for some of these positions who will be willing to divide their time and abilities with work which yields no tangible return beyond a dead glory and that old bromide known as "experience...
...participation in the wide field ranging from athletics to music and literary work, is lessened. Unquestionably the verdict for scholarship is a just one. Still, no one yet expects from the college student the singleness, of scholastic purpose teat characterizes the graduate; and the present mean is one beyond which the administration's requirements can go but little without weighing down The scale toward a college life perhaps too strictly academic...
Materially speaking, his book which has won the recognition of the Book of the Month Club, is twenty-five pages short of the famous four hundred pages, the commonly accepted threshold beyond which boredom may set in on the average reader...
Beveridge's Lincoln is a work that brings together more facts about Lincoln's earlier life and his times than have ever before been assembled; marshaled in the compelling order and presented with the eloquence and dramatic force of which Senator Beveridge was master. It is beyond question the definitive work on its subject and period, illuminating for the scholar, profoundly interesting for the general reader. 2 vols...
...about Mr. Wescott's style which mars the effects he strives to produce. The sentences are too involved, and far too often there is a decided incoherence. One of the stories, called "Adolescence," seems in a fair way to present certain observations on that state when it is mangled beyond hope of success by the roundabout method of presentation. Another, "Wedding March" by name, comes considerably nearer to achieving...