Word: pre
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...northward and eastward to Manassas Junction, thereby cutting off Pope's communications from his base of supplies. This took place on the 25th and 26th of August, and was a movement of wonderful brilliancy and rapidity. General Gordon spoke here in the highest terms of Gen. Jackson, as standing pre-eminent in a class at West Point-the class of 1842-which included McClellan, Reno, and A. P. Hill...
...unselfish devotion to science for its own sake, and that unshackled activity of thought which is at once the condition and the consequence of such devotion, retire more and more into the background as the classical groundwork of our mental life found in the Gymnasium is withdrawn from the pre-university course. This is, to be sure, in the first instance, only a personal belief drawn from personal experience; but I will not omit to say that I have had abundant opportunity to discuss the subject with friends connected with the physical and mathematical sciences, and I have found them...
Before the war-a phrase which dates most important events in Southern history-this was pre-eminently the college of the South, writes a correspondent of the New York Tribune from the University of Virginia. It had few rivals, and its broad methods of study and liberal discipline drew the young man of family, the chivalric blood which is the precious Southern tradition, to its halls. Most educated men older than forty in the South have spent a season here, and even now, with the multiplication of State universities and privately endowed colleges in the South Atlantic and Gulf States...
Prof. Youmans declares that the study of dead languages has been the one pre-eminent and historic failure of so-called liberal education...
...stonecutter, is no longer remote. One of the highest college-bred men of the present time is Prof. Huxley, and one of the strongest advocates of college and university training for all whose opportunities and means will permit them to enjoy it. He counts himself, and actually is, pre-eminently a handicraftsman whose life is mainly spent in his workshop, and his writings and addresses are what he learns from his own work. As civilization generally has advanced, so that society has been willing to accord a true value to mechanical pursuits, and invest them with the humane Interests which...