Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...thirty-one items gave a total of $1,576,330, or each Harvard student spends annually $315.25 in excess of his tuition, board, and room rent...
...possible for a single observer to study all of the material in action against one another. But these favorable conditions have been gone these sixteen years and more. Today there are 300 college and university football teams in the United States presenting a field of material in excess of 10,000 men. Manifestly, it is impossible for a single observer to see more than 28 of these elevens in action and these cannot be the right elevens. Some of the most formidable teams do not play one another...
...treatment of the theme of the struggle in a man's affections between the love of a woman and the lure of "the old trail." It is clearly conceived and vividly presented. Mr. Wright is clearly very sensitive to atmosphere, and at times tempted to deal with it to excess, even when it is an essential part of the story. His style would gain in masculinity by a greater restraint in the use of adjectives. In "The Ominous Tract"--a somewhat oracular title--Arthur Wilson has a real story to tell, and tells it with genuine effectiveness. Irving Pichel...
Something in excess of 20,000 was the number of applications to the Yale football management for tickets to the Harvard game, as announced today. Over 6,000 had to be returned to disappointed applicants; but this morning several batches of tickets were returned and these were used to fill what applications still remained at the office...
...report of the Graduate Treasurer of Athletics for last year shows an excess of receipts over expenditures of slightly over $100 less than the year previous, but in the light of other factors, this is a brilliant showing. The increase in the general expense account was caused by the reorganization which has taken place in the business methods of the office. From the fact that the average daily receipts and expenses at the athletic office are over $420, the necessity of most thorough and accurate book-keeping is readily appreciated...