Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...precautions, the number of cases of actual graduation in three years has been kept low, but the opportunity for it is offered as freely as is at present justifiable. The three years course can not be opened under general conditions until it is proved desirable by a very general excess in the College of work done over work required. While the Faculty's present treatment of the questions connected with the Bachelor's degree is admitted to be provisional, it is certainly just, and deprives no man of educational privileges to which he is fairly entitled...
...development of advanced instruction at Cambridge in all subjects, spent $90,000 out of their very limited unrestricted capital in enlarging the original Gore Hall. The unrestricted funds have never recovered from that abrupt reduction, - on the contrary, they have been still further diminished by occasional annual deficits in excess of annual surplusses. It is impossible for the Corporation to repeat that operation. The whole income of the University from invested funds and from tuition-fees is needed to maintain the present scale of expenditure for salaries, repairs and improvements, general expenses, and the various useful objects to which...
...earnestly wish the nine success in the contest. We hope that they will go into the game neither with the lack of confidence that makes play unsteady, nor with the excess of confidence that makes it careless...
...forty men less; but it is considered much preferable to any inroad upon the social side of the life in the hall. The other plan is that general tables should be abolished, but, all tables being given to clubs, that each club should have a number of men in excess of the table's seating capacity. By this the hall could accommodate as many, and possibly more, than it does at present. Many other plans are of course in the air; but the consideration of these two will yield most result...
After summarizing the advantages and the disadvantages which have resulted from the gret development of athletic sports at American colleges within the past twenty-five years, the President says: "If the evils of athletic sports are mainly those of exaggeration and excess, it ought not to be impossible to point out and apply appropriate checks. The following changes would certainly diminish the existing evils: (1) There should be no freshman intercollegiate matches or races; (2) no games, intercollegiate or other, should be played on any but college flelds, belonging to one of the competitors, in college towns; (3) no professional...