Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...instant and lasting popularity or admiration from other men by being such rakish chaps, and in the second, they should have learned to behave in a respectable way despite the circumstances. What a surprise it would be if these roving bands, without being urged, should hereafter when excess of spirit or spirits overtakes them, retire to some vacant field and there make all the noise they care to far from the shades of Cambridge and the open windows of members of athletic teams, which these same bands supposedly wish to see win games. G. P. GARDNER...
...Stadium, as is well known, is in part the gift of the class of 1879 on the twenty-fifth anniversary of its graduation. The President and Fellows accepted the gift, brought the building to something like completion, received from the Athletic Association interest on the excess of the cost over the cost over the amount paid by the class of 1879, and received the principal from the same source in instalments. The very large sum required of the Association in payment for the Stadium has delayed work on the unre-claimed parts of Soldiers Field. When the committee, eager...
...report of breakage of dishes was much exaggerated, it being actually less than $3, although the bill for damages was greatly in excess of this, due again to the fifteen. "Yours truly, "Allen C. Jones...
...noticed in the Reading Room that the demand for any book is seldom much in excess of the supply, except during the thirty-six hours before work has to be handed in or reported on. If men would be a little more forehanded with their work, or would remember that when the Gore Hall copy of a work cannot be had, copies can often be found in Harvard Hall or in one of the other special libraries, the difficulty of supply would be much diminished...
...number of applications for rooms in the Senior dormitories is greatly in excess of the rooms available in Hollis, Holworthy, and Stoughton. Because of this the question of making substantial improvements in the north and middle entries of Thayer Hall in order to bring them up to the standard of the other Senior dormitories will be considered by the Corporation at its meeting next Monday. As some of the applications are based on the expectation of improvements, the final allotment of rooms in the middle and north entries of Thayer Hall will be delayed until next Tuesday, when all applications...