Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...annual meeting of the Reading-Room Association was held in the reading-room yesterday afternoon at two o'clock. The report of the secretary and treasurer, Mr. Hibbard, showed a slight excess in the expenses over the receipts, but this deficit was fully covered by the amount received from the auction sale of papers after the meeting. The following named officers were elected for next year: President, W. B. Noble, '84; secretary and treasurer, F. I. Carpenter. '85; directors, C. M. Butler, '84, W. A. Halbert, '85, J. M. Merriam...
...their privileges. The association desire to arrange matters as if the present rules had been in force from the beginning of this spring's tennis season. They will, therefore, refund to those joining the association all that they have paid for the marking of their courts this spring in excess of the present charge of fifty cents for a double court and thirty-five for a single court. Those who have already had their courts marked out but have not yet paid can pay on joining the association the amount charged by the new arrangement and the association will...
...lectures on "Land Tenure" last night in Sever 11. The lecture was devoted to a statement of the origin of rent and its influence on the distribution of wealth. Gen. Walker held, of course, to the regular theory of diminishing returns, and showed that rent depended on the excess of production of the land over the production of the worst land in cultivation; that is, of the land which paid no rent. "Rent," he said, "arises from the fact of the varying degrees of production mutually contributing to the same market...
...graduating class. Not content with reporting these facts, which are not wholly devoid of interest, the compilers of these documents proceed to set down a statement of the number of profane swearers, of habitual imbibers of intoxicating drink, and of those who have occasionally drunk to excess. They have not yet arrived at the point of inquiry of the candidates for the bachelor's degree whether they have been guilty of adultery or perjury or forgery; but the questions on which they do seek information are in some cases only a degree less insulting to those to whom they...
...pleasant to note how the more rational and intelligent portion of the outer world are disposed to deprecate any undue excess in the present reaction against the "epidemic" of athleticism in our American colleges. The absurd strictures of such men as Dr. Crosby seem to meet with little approval save from the so-called religious press. The standpoint of the Nation and of other representative journals on the matter seems to be generally accepted as the more reasonable one. It cannot be doubted that the utterances of such men as President Eliot and President Barnard in favor of college athletics...