Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...present football season will break all records in gate receipts at Yale. The receipts will amount to more than $230,000. This is more than $65,000 in excess of any previous year and is due to the building of the Bowl with its great seating capacity. Yale this fall will get the benefit of both the Bowl and the Harvard Stadium. Last Saturday 55,750 saw the Princeton game at New Haven. Princeton took only 7,000 seats for Saturday's game, while last fall Harvard took 30,000. The gate receipts this fall will be as follows: Yale...
From the standpoint of injuring the name of the college, the argument is ludicrous. Of the hundreds attending class functions during the year very few drink to excess. Is it not better to have a smoker here than have the same number of men go into town and drink there. Yet this is what the "revolutionists" forcing upon the majority...
...difficulty has arisen from the very excess of material, which has caused the coaches to experiment with a larger number of men than usual and has made the task of selecting the best players a hard one. The process of weeding out has been lengthy, and this probably as much as anything else has retarded the development of the team. In the last two weeks, however, considerable progress has been made in this line...
...CRIMSON'S timely exhortation some days ago to maintain more carefully collegiate neutrality it was urged that "it is the duty of every member of the University to err on the side of understatement rather than of excess and agitation." The CRIMSON'S attitude is proper, but this point needs both emphasis and a somewhat clearer formulation, for the benefit of certain members of our body academic who appear to have needed it not. What the University wants, and what America desires, and what the world needs is not mere "understatement and restraint"; the desideratum is that prejudice and passion...
...diversity of opinion that with the foreign situation in its present critical position, with the continued neutrality of the United States by no means assured, it is the duty of every member of the University to err on the side of understatement and restraint rather than of excess and agitation...