Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...charges for tuition more closely to the amount of instruction taken by each student in the College, the Scientific School, and the Graduate School, the Corporation has established a supplementary fee of $20 a full course and $10 a half course for all courses which a student takes in excess of the number required each year of members of his class, school, or program. Thus a student in the College will be charged at the rate of $20 per full course for each course taken in excess of five in the Freshman year, and in excess of four in each...
...relief from the imperative "ought," said Mr. Crothers, comes recreation as a rest from excess of responsibility. Without play we should seen reach the limit of elasticity the power of healthful reaction after work which makes work possible. The touchstone for recreation is the word "wholesome." So long as recreation restores our bodily power and our capacity for seeing things in proportion, we need not inquire as to its ethics. Any recreation which is really restful can do no harm. The trouble today, the speaker said, is that play is made, not a rest from work, but an added burden...
Beginning today the Co-operative Society will conduct a theatre ticket agency for the Hollis, Colonial and Park theatres at its store in Lyceum Hall. A charge of 40 cents in excess of box-office prices will be made...
...undersigned, on behalf of the contributors, now have the honor of tendering to the President and Fellows of Harvard College, the fund collected for this object--now in excess of $10,000. They leave its administration entirely to the discretion of the University, imposing no conditions other than that the income be used in providing for the delivery and publication of lectures upon "The Essentials of Free Government and the Duties of the Citizen," or upon some part of that subject, such lectures to be called "The Godkin Lectures" and of which there shall be at least one in every...
...possible in view of the heavy extra expense caused by the high price of fuel, the increase in taxation, and the rent charged by the Corporation. For this reason the entertainments have been made as simple and inexpensive as possible, the free telephone, which was used to excess by the members, has been taken out, and open fires and afternoon tea were not offered until the recent gift of a graduate enabled the Committee to provide them...