Word: excess
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...excess of the fund collected will be given to the Massachusetts Volunteer Aid Association. The set of colors that has been purchased by the undergraduate subscription will be forwarded to the cruiser as soon as she can be reached. The loving cup has been finished and will be put on exhibition in the CRIMSON window tomorrow or Thursday...
...correction of athletic evils. The most ardent partisan of intercollegiate sport is forced to admit that under present conditions, abuses do exist, and that they are abuses very difficult to eradicate. The intensity of public interest, and the resulting fierceness of competition form an influence in favor of excess which is almost irresistible...
...experience proves, not always disposed to do their duty promptly. (a) Chicago strike. (2) Such delays affect peace and happiness of entire nation. C. Dangers of centralization cannot be urged in opposition. 1. It is a choice of evils. (a) Principles of centralization and localization, if carried to excess, alike dangerous. 2. There is less danger in centralization than in administrative disintegration. (a) Failure of Confederation proves it. (b) To cope with other nations in diplomacy, Government must act swiftly and firmly. (c) Dangers of so-called paternalism comparatively slight. (x) Educational value of local self-government may be otherwise...
After the excess to which the celebration of the victory over Princeton was carried last Wednesday night, it was felt by both officers and students of the University that something should be done to regulate future celebrations. A meeting of the President, several officers and a number of students interested in athletics was held Friday and the best means of celebrating victories was discussed. It was agreed by both the Faculty members and the students that the use of firearms and explosives was unwise. The faculty representatives differed, however, from the students, in wishing that bonfires on Holmes Field...
American writers, said the speaker, have worked the richest field in the short story. Mr. Thomas Nelson Page and Mr. Joel Chandler Harris are well known southerners, and Mr. Harding Davis has made a national reputation for himself which is perhaps a little in excess of his merits. "Gallegher" is on the whole his best achievement, and his early stories are in general his best. Miss Jewett and Miss Wilkins are in Mr. Copeland's opinion at the top of American writers of the short story. Miss Wilkins is undoubtedly the more dramatic of the two, but equally without doubt...