Word: exceed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...could not be reckoned in the first rank, either of poets or philosophers, whereas the truth has always been held to be that Emerson was the foremost philosopher that this century has produced. His poetry is often crude and deficient in form, but in poetic thought few men can exceed him. The test, or one of the tests, of originality is suggestiveness. And it is originality in any department which makes a man preeminent in that department. Certainly no man has been more suggestive than Emerson. Moreover we Americans ought not to like to see Emerson's intellectual proportions measured...
...essays must not exceed in length the amount of twenty-five pages of the North American Review...
...previously announced for Saturday. Special trains are to be run to accommodate the crowds of visitors, and Cambridge is expected to present as lively a scene as is witnessed there at the annual commencement. Indeed, the interest excited by the promised representation of the "Birds" seems greatly to exceed that manifested when Sophocles' "Ajax" was played last year. Not that all the audience will be able to appreciate the wit and satire of Aristophanes' comedy, though the ladies and the unlearned will be provided with a convenient English translation of the play, by Dr. Kennedy, the professor of Greek, together...
...Fund,) the income of which is to be paid every year as a part of his salary to the president of Harvard College, in addition to his present salary of $5,000 a year and the use of a house. The salary of the president is, however, never to exceed $10,000, in addition to the use of a house. Any excess will be expended in the salaries of assistants to the president or in the salaries of professors. The communication was signed by Henry Lee, N. Thayer, Wm. Endicott, Jr., Augustus Lowell, F. E. Parker, George Baty Blake, George...
...timely purchase of a large piece of land; it has paid about $220,000 for a spacious, durable and well arranged building; it has increased its annual expenditure for salaries of teachers from $20,000 in 1871-2 to $36,000 in 1883-3; its receipts have exceeded its expenses in every year since 1871-2, and its invested funds now exceed those of 1871 by more than $100,000" President Eliot in closing introduced Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, who was received with great applause. Dr. Holmes sketched the history of the school from its foundation to the present...