Word: pre
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...current float with the current without effort or motion for themselves. That kind of mental training which aids most the future career, frequently does not come from books or from the teaching of professional instructors. It is acquired as the child learns, from observation, intuitively. Such advantages pre-eminently exist in a great city...
...positions elsewhere, leave us. With forty-one professors and an income of $225,000, we should be educating a thousand instead of two hundred." All of which seems merely to neglect the argument that it is in this very opportunity for the highest training not obtainable elsewhere that the pre-eminent usefulness of such an endowment as that of Johns Hopkins consists...
Each college has its own standing, either social or literary, and its men are judged accordingly. Christ Church has always been pre-eminently the college for noblemen, and many of England's most distinguished sons, among the nobility, have been graduated there...
...returned, having with him studies of Venice, views of her palaces, interiors, and also a copy of V. Cappaccio, which, with a few pictures painted since his return, make up the exhibition. His style is in sympathy with the English water-color artists and has a touch of pre-Raphaelism about it. Mr. Bridgman has taken a studio at Cambridge, and there may be in this a fillip to "the Cambridge school...
...hours they are used, clearly stated. All who use the courts should pay a moderate sum to cover expenses. And those who have entered their names, and paid their dues for the season should be entitled to play at any hour on any court that has not been pre-engaged for that hour...