Word: outstrip
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...from very pleasure, and from their actually having something to write about. Here at Harvard, literary activity is the exception rather than the rule. Still it is true that in this respect, the present year goes far ahead of many previous years, Let us hope that next year will outstrip this. No persons would welcome greater literary ability in the college at large more than the at present over-worked editors of the college papers. We believe that in saying this, we are speaking not only for ourselves, but for the editors of the other Harvard papers as well...
...Whatever may be the result of co-education, the present standing and success of Wellesly augurs well for the system of female education as there pursued. The college is making immense strides after its older rivals and despite the sex of its students bids fair to equal if not outstrip them in the race...