Word: surpass
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...young ladies' at Cornell are said to surpass in scholarship the male students. - Yale News...
...price of victory of any worth. Every man in the university who feels himself able to finish any event respectably should feel called upon to tender his support. With a new list of able and hard working officers for the athletic association, no effort should be lost to surpass even the victory of last year. The cup belongs here and here it shall return, let who will contest such a result. With such a determination in mind success is assured...
Foot-ball has changed. It cannot help changing from year to year from the very fact that competition is constantly urging it forward. One party in trying to surpass the other will find some new method, some weak point in its adversaries' tactics, which, properly made use of, will gain for it the desired end. It is precisely the same in any other matter where competition takes a part, whether we confine ourselves to athletics or not. And our game of foot-ball is not an exception. The time is so short for actual training; the matches...
...students, but to claim that the student body as a whole is given over to expensive living because of the above cited existing abuses, so called, is to deny the exceptional advantages offered to and embraced by students of small means to pursue studies at Harvard, - advantages which confessedly surpass those presented by any other American university. A struggle for social position with all its attendant expenses is absolutely unavoidable among students thrown together, as are those of Harvard. Those who are most determined to secure such position will not consent, nor do their friends so encourage them...
...wishes that every man in the class who can sing may make an effort to be present. The rehearsal will take little more than half an hour if everybody is prompt, and ought not to interfere seriously with anyone's grinding. We all wish the '86 Class Day to surpass the standard of former years, and a little attention from the class is absolutely necessary to make the song an interesting feature...