Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...public press, it is permissible to remark in the interests of truth, that it would be discreditable indeed to Harvard university - old and well-equipped as it is - if any other American institution could approach it in the range and volume of its annual literary and scientific publications." The excess of scientific publications over literary would be much reduced if pages instead of titles were counted; for in science a larger number of brief monographs on limited topics can be found than there is any equivalent for in literature...
...diary of President Leverett furnishes us with the following curiousee ord: "November 4, 1712. A. - was publickly admonish'd in the College Hall, and there confessed his Sinfull Excess, and his enormous profanation of the Holy Name of Almighty God. And he demeaned himself so that the Presid't and Fellows conceived great hopes that he will not be lost...
VII.TUTTI FRUTTI.(a) What are the arguments against the possibility of general over-production or excess of supply? Do you believe in them...
...hoped that some new lockers will be put in the gymnasium next year, as the demand for them now is far in excess of the supply...
...limitation of choice some appear to mean making choice less. I mean fortifying it, keeping it true to itself, making it more. Control that diminishes the quantity of choice is one thing; control that raises the quality, quite another. Old educational systems are often said to have erred by excess of authority. I could not say so. The elective system, if it is to possess the future, must become as authoritative as they. More accurately we say that their authority was of a wrong sort. There are two kinds of authority, - the authority of moral guidance, and the authority...