Word: surpassed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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With the issue of to-day the new editorial board assumes control of the CRIMSON. It is our purpose to reach the standard set for us by our predecessors-if possible, to surpass it. The retiring editors from eighty-five have done much to advance the cause of daily journalism at Harvard, -just how much can be appreciated by those who have been in a position to watch their efforts to promote the interests of the CRIMSON. To them we would render our hearty thanks for their untiring labor, and from them we accept the management of the paper...
...into the base ball field with the opening of spring. Not only have we the men composing our last year's team, Safford '84 excepted, but there are several competitors who would do honor to any nine, and if fortune continues to smile, our record for '85 will surpass that of the past season...
...sophomore class to choose a board of eight or ten editors to bring out their publication, and the result is that the work appears in a month or two at latest after the opening of their Junior year; and not only this but every class takes particular pains to surpass the work of those before them, so that the result is more and more gratifying every year. The range of the book is also much larger than with us, embracing such organizations as private club tables, whose members vie with one another to produce the most laughable or unique pictures...
...students have been subjected to a most vexations delay in obtaining the Index. It now lies before us. Can it be said that its excellence is commensurate with the amount of time spent in its preparation? Hardly, we are constrained to admit, for the present volume certainly does not surpass the efforts of previous editors, and we note some rather prominent inaccuracies. One is apt to get rather an unfortunate first impression from the cover. Have you ever, in riding along some solitary country road, been confronted by two gaunt posts bearing a signboard with the ominous legend "Look...
...while the Glee club expects to maintain the excellent reputation which it has enjoyed in the past, the Pierian Sodality was never in so flourishing a condition as at present. Unprecedented efforts, by means of numerous rehearsals, have been made in preparation, and the club will no doubt surpass all its former performances...