Word: outweigh
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...less contemptible, we fail to understand. Perhaps the weight of moral responsibility is less imminent in the latter case, but the fact that probation permanently deprives the team of services which should be rendered, as well as failure to uphold one half of the academic contract, should more than outweigh any other argument in favor of the present universal levity...
...operative advances of the Memorial Hall management. The new plan will mean a cash loss to Memorial Hall, and indirectly to the University's finances, at the beginning, but if successful in the end, the permanent gain of re-establishing Memorial as the representative College Commons will far outweigh the temporary loss...
...great justification for the proposed move: it will tend to induce every man to do his best in scholarship, as most are at present doing in outside affairs to the detriment of deserved academic credit. This argument in favor of the publication of marks we consider to outweigh every thing which has so far been said in opposition...
...Pudding play the thread of the plot may be never so tenuous--it may be reduced to a mere "vibration"; the "stunts" may be perfectly irrelevant, even unblushingly lugged in, and may outweigh all the rest; but so long as the music is gay--with some of the solos pretty; so long as the action is amusing, and the whole thing is given with gusto--that is all we have any right to demand of a Pudding play...
...ornamental but scarcely useful spectacle of three devoted students delving into the mysteries of the starfish's eye or earnestly promoting the interests of science by investigating the morphology of the house-fly. Valuable as these researches may be, they can hardly be considered as of sufficient importance to outweigh the lack of a general course in American literature and the relative scarcity of courses in government. Graduate students are mostly holders of degrees from other colleges; studying at Cambridge, they do not regard themselves as Harvard men, but are loyal to Mason City College or the University of Central...