Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...steward is engaged by the president and board of directors. He receives a certain yearly salary and, in addition, a system of "head money," consisting of a bonus of ten cents a week per man, provided the price of board does not exceed $4.00 a week. Thus it is evident that it is to the steward's interest to keep the price of board at exactly $4.00. But it should further be noticed that there is a waiting list of over 600 for the hall, that the places of those who leave the hall on account of poor fare will...
...regulating absences from lectures, or "cuts," followed at Harvard, with the plans in force at other colleges is a source of much satisfaction to Harvard students. At some colleges no absences are allowed without excuse. At others a small fixed number of "cuts" is allowed which no student can exceed except for severe sickness. Other institutions have still different plans. At Yale, for instance, a "new system of cuts" has been tried in the freshman class and will probably be adopted for all classes in the future. According to this system no absence of longer than a week is allowed...
...Institutions of contemporary France. The fourth treats of the history of French art, and the lectures will be given in the Museums and Monuments of Paris and the immediate neighborhood. The fifth group is devoted to conversation classes, the number of students in any one class not to exceed twelve. The second series in August is of a similar nature...
Harvard proposed, not the maintenance of all the notes, but of such a quantity only as will not exceed the gold reserve. Above all these notes should not be reissued, except in return for gold...
...volumes were on the same level with "Doninie," "Drumsheugh's Love Story," and "A Doctor of the Old School," here would be work that would surpass Mr. Barrie's best. As it is, these three sketches-said Mr. Copeland-and "A Window in Thrums" far exceed any imaginative prose writing in Lowland Scotch since the author of Meg Dods, Edie Ochiltree, and Jeanie Deans, laid down his swift and tired...