Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...imperfections it represents a considerable advance over the educational system prevailing at Harvard twenty years ago. In my opinion the tutorial system has been successful in stimulating the intellectual interests and the intellectual achievements of the superior, and also of the average, student to a point far beyond that attained before the system was introduced; it has also been successful in encouraging habits of clear and independent thinking in the average and in the superior student...
...practice, the demands on the funds of a large institution are constantly changing, and must be handled by persons familiar with the situation, not by the inflexible provisions of a will. Furthermore the dispensation of such funds is often a task beyond the ken of a layman. The man with a casual interest in a subject, desiring to leave a sum to the students of that subject, is not necessarily a good judge of the manner of expenditure. A sincere and equitable bequest, in short, should be drawn up in one of two ways: it should either have been gone...
Best description of Freak McGrath's technique, written before he had really proved his capabilities beyond winning the under-21 championship of Australia without losing a set, was published last spring in American Lawn Tennis. Excerpts...
...tubes before he could play marbles, cultivated streptococci before he could write his A B C's. At 9, a zealous, frail, brown-eyed boy, he lectured the Chicago Microscopical Society on microbes and laboratory technique, showed his own lantern slides. During a fatiguing lecture which ran far beyond his regular bedtime, he grew pale. A wise scholar picked up the child, held him inverted by his feet. Right-side up again Young Turck continued his lecture. Father Turck decided that biology excited the child too much, diverted him to mathematics, economics, finance. Fenton Benedict Truck...
...closest to a ponderable theme in Pigeons and People is the old one used by Playwright Cohan of yore, that the sane are insane and the insane sane. Beyond that Cohan comes out flatly in favor of "straightaway" thinking. Cohan theatre, Cohan jauntiness make what promises more into a dialectic jig and a first-rate farce...