Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Girton College, the girls' college at Cambridge University in England, is about to be enlarged, and the plans for the new buildings have been already drafted and submitted to the proper authorities. The applications for admission have recently been very much in excess of the accommodation at present offered...
...paper in question has certainly misrepresented the state of affairs, but we trust unintentionally so. This "quarrel," waged with such bitterness, exists only in the minds of the outside world. To be sure, there is a spirit of rivalry which may often carry the students of both colleges to excess...
...expenses, $8020. The only fund of the law department is the library fund of $10,000, yielding an income of $600. The receipts for tuition were $7333, and the expenditure, $7924. The aggregate of all funds was $1,826,532. The needs of the university are in excess of its income, especially in the academic, scientific, medical and law departments...
Turf, Field and Farm says editorially: "The college authorities should see to it that the students do not incur heavy expenses on account of their athletic clubs; that the tax is kept within reasonable bounds, and that indulgence does not run to excess, but further they should not go. Unless there is rivalry, an incentive to action, the interest in athletic games at colleges will grow lukewarm, and from Harvard and Yale and Princeton and Columbia will come the complaint voiced by Herr Von Gossler, the Prussian minister of education. He has issued a circular advising that all the boys...
...excess of liabilities over