Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...veterans of last year's Yale series, have not been up to true form, both being unable to locate the plate. With the exception of the Holy Cross game at Worcester, when the team played wretchedly in the field, all the defeats this season can be traced to an excess of bases on balls. Mahan, who played in the outfield on the 1916 team, has been doing the best work in the box. He has good control and curves, and his work in the Princeton and Brown games stamps him as one of the best college pitchers today. He will...
...degradation, admonition, or expulsion, according to the nature of the offence. Many instances of humiliating acknowledgement of error and sin are recorded. In the diary of President Leavitt is found the following extract: "November 4, 1712, A-- was publicly admonished in the College Hall, and there confessed his sinful excess, and his enormous profanation of the Holy Name of Almighty...
...School does not need to be set forth, but the Press cannot reach its full usefulness without an increase in its resources. Scholarly investigation would also be advanced by the better endowment of the various series of departmental publications, for which the supply of excellent material is frequently in excess of the funds available for printing. Thus the Department of English has just been enabled to begin an important series of Harvard Studies in English, which needs further endowment to place it upon an assured foundation...
...present trouble with Mexico has not yet assumed sufficient proportions to require forces in excess of the regular army and navy. With the whole country decrying war, with Huerta none too anxious for it, and with three Latin-American republics mediating for peace, there is every possibility that it will not assume such proportions. Members of a number of colleges have turned out in demonstrations which are after all but the trappings of loyalty. To be swept by the whirlwind of excitement and eagerness into action, is not necessarily the highest patriotism, if the action is to be so much...
...Widener Library and Freshman Dormitories demand so large an amount of steam that it cannot be supplied by existing boiler plants of the University, nor by additions to them, and the College, therefore, arranged to purchase the surplus steam from the Boston Elevated Railway. If this excess can be utilized through the new tunnel by the University, it would reduce the smoke nuisance from the power station, and would eliminate much of the smoke, and teaming of ashes and coal in the Yard...