Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...College expenditures great economy had been enforced before the fire on account of their excess over receipts in the previous year. This, together with the encouraging increase of income from tuition fees and rents of dormitories, has brought the year's expenditures in this department, including the payment of a part of the debt previously incurred in altering Boylston Hall, within the year's receipts." - Treasurer's Statement...
...desire for property enforces moderation in the use of whiskey, so with others ambition teaches the lesson of moderation in wine. But there are a large number of men, and they make up a considerable part of the students, whose ambition is not great, nor incompatible with occasional excess. Their position is such that they lose no friends, if they are only prudent, whatever they may do. In such cases a pledge would fail, for all to a man would refuse to sign it. Nor do they need such a thing. They drink too much just as they...
...Nothing in excess," is a saying highly approved at Cambridge; and in nothing is the tendency to put this saying in practice more desirable, and experience shows, more evident, than in the use of wine...
...undeniable that a certain amount of figurative language is beautiful in a poem; indeed, if used with taste and skill, it may constitute the poem itself; but how much more true feeling there is in a sentiment when plainly and simply expressed, than when it is encumbered with an excess of figurative language! For instance, compare the two expressions: "Wilt thou remember me?" and "Wilt thou preserve me in thy memory's shrine?" Who will question the superiority of the former? And is it not also more truly poetical...
...lack of common sense on the part of undergraduates to imagine that they would overstep the bounds of propriety in this line. Collegians generally have too high a regard for the feelings of others to commit themselves in that manner. Of course the thing can be carried to excess; so can everything else. It is as a means of toning down a too flashy style, or of pointing out in a pleasant way one's faults, and perhaps even of criticising in some degree his manners, that it is sanctioned...