Word: excellent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still, Cyrano's motto- "I have decided to excel in everything"-is more than mere bombast. His poetry is a celebration of the spirit. He is the enemy of cowardice, weakness, and stupidity. His white plume flies unsullied to the romantic-tragic end, although you must ask if it was worth his self sacrifice and emotional blindness...
...enough and not too much. The rights of the gossip must be held sacred, and it is unnecessary to trespass upon the domain of the childish. There is still room, however, to tell many things that should secure us the patronage of students and graduates. We cannot hope to excel the Advocate in our treatment of sporting matters; to equal it in this, and to supply a long-felt deficiency in other respects, are chief objects with...
...acerbity, the energy, the passionate demand that his students reach out further to excel-all these were characteristic of one of the nation's most distinguished teachers, Sidney Hook. And it was not an ordinary day at all. Hook had just turned 70 and, after 45 years, he was teaching his last class. For the occasion, he said he would break one of his rules and try to explain his own philosophy. "Though there is no substitute for intelligence, it is not enough," said Hook. "There are human beings who have intelligence but do not have the moral courage...
...American politician, Nixon can hardly endorse aristocracy but he would surely agree with Disraeli's praise of the aristocratic system in England as ready to receive "every man in every order and every class who defers to the principle of our society which is to aspire and excel...
...League does, however, excel in a sport that, for some unknown reason, has not generated the fan interest and support that mediocre football has always enjoyed...