Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...American Protective Tariff League offers to undergraduate seniors in the colleges of the United States a series of prizes for approved essays on the "Effect of Protection on the Purchasing Power of Wages in the United States." The essays are not to exceed eight thousand words and must be sent to No. 23 West Twenty-third Street, New York, before March 1, 1891. Awards will be made June 1st, 1891, as follows: For the best essay, one hundred and fifty dollars; for the second best, one hundred dollars; for the third best, fifty dollars. The silver medal of the League...
...single exception is that, if he is a member of some permanent amateur association, he may receive from this association the amount by which the expenses necessarily incurred by him in representing it in any athletic contest exceed his ordinary expenses, just as during the college year he would receive this amount under similar circumstances from any Harvard athletic association of which he was a member. Permanent amateur association here means an association of recognized standing, and of this he must be a bona fide member...
...emolument whatever, direct or indirect, with the single exception that he may have received from the college organization or from any permanent organization of which he was at the time a member the amount by which the expenses necessarily incurred by him in representing his organization in athletic contests exceed his ordinary expenses...
...essay must not exceed twenty-five thousand (25,000) words, and must be in the hands of Mr. Richard T. Eley, secretary of the American Economic Association, Baltimore, Maryland, not later than December 1, 1890. Each paper must be type written, signed by a ficticious name and accompanied by a sealed envelope containing the name assumed as well as the address of the writer...
...method of returning briefs is exceedingly inconvenient. The interval between the return of the first and second briefs and the dates on which the completed forensics were due did not exceed five or six days, and from all appearances the period for the third briefs promises to be as short. This short interval implies both hasty correction by the instructors, who are unable to give each brief the attention it deserves, and hasty work on the part of the students, who, in order not to remodel their work when once written, wait until the briefs are handed back before beginning...