Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...some curious features. After morning prayer the president was wont to admonish the students and hear from them public confession of their delinquences. There are many instances of this. We find that "on Nov. 4, A-was publicly admonished in the college hall, and there confessed his sinful excess and his enormous profanation of the holy name of Almighty God. And he demeaned himselfe so that the president and fellows conceived great hopes that he will not be lost." Some time afterwards we come across the painful fact that three men were "publickly admonished in Ye Hall for drinking...
...part of his salary to the president of Harvard College, in addition to his present salary of $5,000 a year and the use of a house. The salary of the president is, however, never to exceed $10,000, in addition to the use of a house. Any excess will be expended in the salaries of assistants to the president or in the salaries of professors. The communication was signed by Henry Lee, N. Thayer, Wm. Endicott, Jr., Augustus Lowell, F. E. Parker, George Baty Blake, George O. Shattuck, Alex. Agassiz, Quincy A Shaw, Anna C. Lowell, F. Gordon Dexter...
...Excess of liabilities over assets...
...correct up to the date at which the books were balanced. It is possible, however, as was the case with last year's accounts, that some small outstanding bills have not yet been received, but will be sent in later. These would alter the accounts by increasing the "excess of liabilities over assets" items. If there are such outstanding bills, it is not probable that they amount to over one hundred dollars, at the utmost. Supposing there to be none, the debt of last year will have been decreased by thirty-five dollars, and sixty-nine cents ($35.69). When...
...last few years gymnastic games have been carried on to an injurious extent. The very circumstance that when I came to this college I introduced gymnastics makes me now the more anxious they should be kept within due bounds. I am not aware that there has been any excess in physical exercise, but there has been in the exciting games that are played. I calculate that some eight or ten students in every class of one hundred lose very much of the benefit of their college life because their hearts are in the sports rather than in the studies...