Word: overstepping
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...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...
...satirical or otherwise," stern duty points out our course. We must say to our friends of the Advocate that they may do, or refrain from doing, what they please; but when it comes to forbidding to others the same privilege, they disregard the fundamental principle of our government, and overstep their province. We have great respect for the Freshman class, and we wish them well in every particular. No satirical advice to them will appear in our columns; but the letters which have been furnished us by one of our most valued contributors - a man of large experience...
...upheld. I hope it will not be inferred that I am defending any one for offering insults to another under the mere pretence that he is endeavoring to correct him. It would be presupposing a lack of common sense on the part of undergraduates to imagine that they would overstep the bounds of propriety in this line. Collegians generally have too high a regard for the feelings of others to commit themselves in that manner. Of course the thing can be carried to excess; so can everything else. It is as a means of toning down a too flashy style...