Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Professor Lefranc traced briefly the growth of the Renaissance movement for the education of woman. Moliere took an active part in this quarrel, as in others. His attitude, as revealed in "Les Femmes Savantes," was not opposed to the education of women, but merely to the excess of this tendency, which, as other excesses, he held up to ridicule...
...mission in life, and he does not question it. If football is merely played for the loyalty it inspires--spring the trap and let it perish." The article supporting Professor Royce's view lacks the worst faults of the opposing statement, but is also inclined to excess, both in language and argument...
...newly organized Harvard Dramatic Club has possibilities far in excess of any similar organization of which the University has yet boasted. When we consider the success that has already attended the efforts of the club's president, the chances of producing something of real artistic merit seem almost limitless. Of late years the College has been overrun with musical comedies, some good, some bad; but all far too trivial, and none expressive of Harvard's real dramatic ability...
...this a bit unreasonable? In a communication the other day by Mr. Derby we are led to believe that from those absences which occur at the end of a major sport season the Faculty naturally deduces that such sport to demand such method of recuperation in one of excess. Doubtless they do. But isn't this again an example of ignorance to be traced from unconcern over the success of that season? Here's a simpler explanation of those absences-the debilitation of re-echoing defeat, nothing but defeat! It is a natural time to hide one's light under...
...present number suffers from an excess of timeliness. Jest and youthful jollity are invoked too frequently to celebrate the Junior Dance. Mirth can scarcely preserve her light fantasticality through unlimited Bostons; and small wonder, for as the editorial informs us, "in the Boston the left foot points towards Somerville, while the right aims at the Harvard Bridge...