Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...prove nothing at all concerning the actual expenses of the Harvard crew, which you place, for last year at $8,236. Of this sum, a large portion came down as an indebtedness from the year before. Then, too, the money paid out by the Boat Club, is largely in excess of its actual expenditures. To explain this, it is necessary to speak briefly of the manner of keeping the accounts of the Boat Club. For the sake of simplicity, the annual report of the treasurer is a statement of all the money handed in to, and paid by, the Boat...
...gain of 64. While Yale has gone backward during the last two years, the loss being ten men, Harvard has advanced rapidly in every department and shown a gain of over one hundred and fifty, the Harvard students to0day being exactly 500 in excess of those of Yale...
...Excess of liabilities over assets...
...date at which the books were balanced. However, some outstanding bills may be presented later, as was the case last year. The price of the shell from Waters, $410.50, and a bill of $77 for tools stolen from the boat house, both add unusually to the excess of liabilities over assets. The excess is consequently greater than that of last year. Another reason for this is the fact that the Hasty Pudding Club gave a smaller sum to the boat club, than that given the year before, and that the PI Eta theatricals, which last year yielded $278, were...
...that it would be a great gain to the students as a body to give up entirely during the college course, the use of every sort of liquor. In the four years which a man spends in college he is far more likely to fall into fatal habits of excess than in any other period of his life...