Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...From the land of France comes the glad tidings that President Wilson is in favor of repealing the "bone dry" war measure to permit the sale of beer and light wines. Perhaps the President has learned by experience in France that the practice of drinking, if not carried to excess, produces no harmful effect. Perhaps the "no beer, no work" slogan has reached the President and has indicated to him that the laboring class craves its slightly harmful satisfaction. Perhaps Mr. Wilson has an ear to the ground for the coming 1920 elections. Who knows...
...might well recognize the growing science of aviation, which is so vitally allied with artillery, by adding a course in aeronautics to its curriculum. The aviators and aspiring aviators would gladly welcome such a course, and the government would doubtless further the enterprise by aiding with some of the excess planes left on its hands...
...writer of the second communication printed below apparently feels that professors and instructors are at present receiving a living wage and that any increase of pay beyond this living wage will bring teachers such an excess of comforts and personal pleasures that their attention will be detracted from their all-important duty of educating the youth of the country. He fears the influence of men who go into teaching for the money there is in it, "men who are attracted by high...
...excess of this quality that prevented him from gaining the scholarly reputation to which his brilliant abilities entitled him. He was really too unselfish to become a specialist, too much interested in his fellow-men to concentrate on a single field. His friends often used to remonstrate with him about this, and urged him to devote himself to productive scholarship, as the surest road to academic promotion. He would invariably admit the force of their arguments, and occasionally make an heroic effort to get started on a monograph; then some 'chore' would turn up, which others might regard...
...number of students who registered at the University Thursday was 2,502, which is 500 in excess of the preliminary estimate. Registration will be continued for a few days; and it is expected that this number will be somewhat increased, as many former students have not yet been released from the service. The final registration figures will be ready by the end of next week...