Word: surpass
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...always present and to direct the gymnasium work, frequently absents himself. If he has not the time to undertake the task of overseeing the training, some other man ought to be appointed at once. Unless he has a larger number of good players than usual, his nine will far surpass the unenviable reputation gained by last year's nine, and will be a positive disgrace to the college. Such work as the nine has been doing lately is a mere waste of time, and may be as well be stopped immediately. The effects of such work are demoralizing and injurious...
...Yale foot-ball team is just now in desperate straits, and if it wins either the Harvard or Princeton games it will surpass the expectations of its supporters. The injury to Captain Beecher, coming as it does alomst on the eve of the contest with the men from Jersey, is a very critical one, and if it does not deprive Yale of the championship it will at least injure the chances greatly. Beecher cannot play for a week at least, and even if he recovers sufficiently to play in the game with Princeton on the 19th, he will be under...
...regret that lack of space prevents my speaking at greater length of the exceptional merit of the translations given in "Some Studies in Catullus." In many instances they surpass for perfection of rendering and beauty of English, the translations of Leigh Hunt and a host of other poets, not to speak of the clumsy productions of a pedantic Munroe. It gives an admirer of Catullus intense pleasure to see his spirit caught so thoroughly and rendered so well in our mother-tongue...
...diagram represents Dr. Sargent's anthropometric chart for the plotting of the physical development. "The parts at which the observations were made, are indicated by the list at the left side of the chart. The perpendicular lines divide into classes all of the measurements for each part that were surpassed or unsurpassed by given percentages of the persons examined, as shown by the figures at the top of the chart. The upper number at the top of the line shows the per cent, that at each part surpassed the class indicated by that line. The lower number shows...
...with the horizontal line, is intersected by the broken line indicating his standing. For instance, if his line at its junction with the horizontal line leading from the weight, intersect the perpendicular line immediately under the figure 20, it would indicate that 80 per cent. of all those examined surpassed him in weight, while the complement of this, or 20 per cent. failed to surpass him. If, however, his line where it intersects the line of measurement, fall on the line at the right or left of one of the numbered perpendicular lines, add or subtract...