Word: overstepping
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...cause for complaint. The positions have been assigned according to the localities from which the various organizations hail; and Boston certainly has the right of way. Let us do everything in our power to make our share of the parade a success; but let us be careful not to overstep the bounds of good behavior and decency...
...condition of affairs, no notice is taken of them, but all friends of education and civilization are invited to send, even at a personal sacrifice, money to Athens to aid in the study of the Erectheum. Truly, learning has grown to gigantic proportions if its pursuit is allowed to overstep the most ordinary and evident bounds of common sense...
...closing let me give you a little bit of advice-if you are "hard up" for matter to fill your daily, as you are often, doubtless, don't lower your august dignity so far as to overstep your own boundaries of common sense if you posses any of that rare article, and show your utter and most deplorable ignorance by criticising your neighbors, who can possibly survive and issue publications annually, as well as daily, weekly, and monthly, without the permission of your high and mightiness...
...have even the shadow of the control over them which he believes himself to possess over the occupants of College rooms. "How, then, could there be any trouble between him and the Directors? For surely the Bursar must have studied his own duties and powers too carefully to overstep them." Let us see. In March last the Board of Directors voted to allow students to bring ladies to meals in the small room adjacent to the main hall of Memorial. As to whether this was wise or not, we have nothing to say. It was an innovation, but such...