Word: pre
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...week there blazes over the college entrance the old legend "Let no man enter in on pain of death." If one desires to visit Wellesley the visit must be made on Monday. The reason of this strange choice of a "play day" is very evident. Wellesley is pre-eminently a college
...schools in the United States has been well shown by a special report to the English Commissioners on Technical Education by one of the sub-commissioners who has recently visited the educational institutions and industrial establishments of this country and Canada. The commissioner speaks, at the outset, of the pre-eminence of Americans in many branches of mechanical industry, and he makes this a reason for giving a general view of the character and scope of our public schools, as well as of the special provisions for industrial training. He was particularly impressed by the fact that there...
...question of whether Mr. Adams is right, but of the true meaning of a liberal education. There can, of course, be no question of the fact that there are many professional men in the country who have a thorough and comprehensive knowledge of their professions and are indisputably pre-eminent in their respective fields. But if the great majority of professional men, while possessing a thorough knowledge of the requirements of their professions and all that pertains to a comprehensive working of them, are not liberally educated, it is, indeed, time that a liberal education was defined and explained...
...social habit of drinking is essentially vulgar. "The manhood of man is lessened" as he becomes more appreciative of the superiority of French wines manufactured especially for the American market. Intemperance stands pre-eminent among the evils known to civilized nations, and is, moreover, the foundation of a great part of the other evils. In Europe, where formerly nobody got drunk because everybody drank, the cry is arising in almost every country, both on account of drunkenness, and on account of the adulteration of liquors France herself has become frightened and from an analysis of 1700 samples of what...
...these lives and the use that is made of them, that a few words of explanation may not be unacceptable. It is the intention of the class secretaries in requesting every member of the class to write a short autobiographical sketch to obtain items of interest in the pre-collegiate and college life of each member, not easily ascertained by any other method. When the class lives are all handed in, they will be bound and kept in some accessible place, open to the inspection of the class only. The importance of these records may now seem but trifling...