Word: overstep
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...initial premise of Harvard-Yale rivalry two years ago or one but not in December 1928, with the recollection of a glorious afternoon in the Bowl still extremely new. Dartmouth is in town and now and then gets scalped and the joy of the University still does not overstep too far the margins set by indifference. But fifty years of opposition more than half of them alternately as host and as guest, have set a unique seal on Harvard's meetings with Yale...
...Corps is a personal matter that falls on every member. The word of a cadet is unquestioned, and it must be perfect surely. It is a small thing to report oneself for violations of the Honor Code, for any man may unintentionally fail to accomplish some intention, or overstep his bounds. True the punishment is swift and sure. This is the most cold-blooded place for discipline that the Lord created. But, once over the offence is completely forgotten; wiped...
...current number of Harvard Library Notes does not overstep the bounds of scholarship's conservatism when it calls the William Allen White gift of Shakespearean Quartos "the capstone on Harvard's collection of English literature ... comparable with the greatest gifts the Library has received in the past." The eighty-eight thin volumes, which would hardly fill a single shelf of the ordinary stacks, have been examined by the college librarians since the announcement in June of the edition. Their findings give point to their assay of the gift. Of the forty-four separate editions of Shakespeare which were published before...
...suit be dismissed, he said, for Illinois had done nothing illegal. The water diversion permit, which expires at the end of 1929, was properly issued by the Secretary of War who had been properly empowered by Congress, with which lies ultimate authority over national domain and waterways. Should Illinois overstep her legal permit, let the Great Lakes States then sue again. Before the permit expires and necessitates a fight in Congress, let Chicago perfect its water-purification so that diversion can be dispensed with; or let weirs be built in the Niagara and St. Glair Rivers to compensate the lake...
...have gone too far. Editorial stunts (and I speak from an experience of more than 35 years in active newspaper work) can be carried beyond what is pleasing. TIME'S new department of FASHIONS is just such an overstep. You know why without my going any further: the "formula...