Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Much complaint was made last year because Yale men were unable to purchase seats on the observation train in New Haven, but upon their arrival in New London found plenty of them for sale by outside parties at prices greatly in excess of the regulation rate. Several plans have been suggested by the managers of the railroad and navy; but the one most feasible and most likely to be adopted is to the effect that the size of the train shall be unlimited and that as many seats shall be sold at the regular price of one dollar as there...
...forearm, 34 in.; breadth of shoulders, 1 1-4 in; and in the capacity of lungs, 40 cubic in. Three men have given up the use of tobacco during the year, but many have taken up the habit, making the smokers 5 per cent in excess of what they were last year...
...Excess of liabilities over assets...
...hips seem to respond more slowly. The total height is slightly increased, through increase in length of the lower extremities, but the sitting height and girth of head, knees, instep, waist and the length of upper arm and foot are at first hardly altered. In the athletic class, the excess in development of the right arm tends to establish the fact that our popular games give more employment to the right arm than to the left...
...excess in the chest-girth may be accounted for by the prominence of the shoulder blades, for the girth of the waist is consistent with other measurements. The girth of the hips, thighs and knees indicates the nearest approach to perfect symmetry that it is possible to attain. The calves are a trifle small and the insteps somewhat flat; but for these slight deficiencies and the fact that the upper and lower leg are a few centimeters short, the lower extremities would be perfect in form. The upper and forearms are too large for the body and limbs...