Word: exceed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Voted, That in view of the decrease in the membership of the association, and consequent increase in the price of board, the directors direct the steward not to allow the price of board per week to exceed five dollars, and that they request the corporation to guarantee that the price shall not exceed that sum, and, moreover, to guarantee that when the membership of the association shall reach 450 men the price of board shall not exceed $4.75, and that if the membership reaches 600 the price shall not exceed...
Harvard students are dissatisfied because they were promised board, in the beginning of the term, at a price not to exceed $2.00, and when the bills were sent in at the end of the term, find that they have been charged $5.00 instead. Long communications appear in all the Harvard publications demanding explanations as well as a thorough overhauling and reorganization of the Harvard Dining Association. - [Cornell...
...opinion of the board of directors it is very improbable that the price of board will exceed $5.00 per week...
DEAR FRIEND, - The charms of my University life exceed even my fondest anticipations. Society here is intense. Cambridge is so rich in intellectual life, in local color, that one's faculties are kept in constant tension. I feel that I am improving very fast under these stimulating influences. The instructors are all men of tone. Some of them are inclined to talk upon matters not connected with the recitation, but they are always interesting. I am delighted to be able to tell you that Harvard has been grossly misrepresented by the public press. The students do not even stare...
MINNIE. Aw, davilish sorry, Jim, my boy; but really can't, you know, aw : am writing an examination in Hydrostatics 10, aw; and I gave my word, you know, to do it in three hours; and by Jove, you know, no fellow would be so low as to exceed her time. Take a seat, aw. You'll find a box of Havannahs, aw, on the table; the old lady sent them yesterday, aw. I'll be through, aw, in fifteen minutes...