Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Pres. Gilman has long been identified with the movement toward a gradual broadening of the curriculum of a college course, and the plan which he now puts forth is worthy of great consideration. Any radical movement which has long been needed is very likely to be carried to an excess if it is not restricted by some restraining influence. While it is of course granted that some change should be made in the work necessary for a degree of A. B. in many of our colleges, it is doubtful if many college faculties in the South and West...
...Amherst students, by a new rule enforced this present term, are allowed ten absences from chapel, and four from church, and if this number is exceeded, the student takes a vacation, unless he can give good reasons for excess...
...must always be remembered that the reports of the custom-houses represent merely the purchase of individuals. If exports are exceeded by imports, the blame is often laid on the government, but in truth this excess is due merely to the effectual demand of individuals. It is not a matter of government. Therefore, for government to meddle herein is a very delicate proceeding, for it is in practice an interference of government with purely private affairs. Legislators are poor enough managers of their own affairs, and much poorer of the affairs of others. It must next be remembered that...
Leaving an excess of liabilities
...expenses for each period of three or four years, average more than for each corresponding period. What is worse, for the last few years, the crew has run in debt again. At the end of each year, the excess of liabilities over assets has grown until now the club finds itself $1,455.07 behind. It is this that we complain of. We cannot go on increasing the debt forever. Incurring a debt, except in some cases for extraordinary expenditures for permanent benefit, is willfully spending other people's money, hardly an honest proceeding. This is why we wish to have...