Word: great
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Medical School are in great lack of subjects for dissection. Neither paupers nor Stewarts can be secured for this purpose...
There was a great deal of noise in the next room I visited, but it subsided when I went in. The inmates, Freshmen, were in close consultation over a knotty point in physics...
...GREAT astonishment on the part of the honest postmaster of Wellesley at the number of Advocates which appeared there last Saturday...
WHEN a brief and unpretending letter like mine calls forth nearly a column of editorial abuse from the Advocate, there must be either a remarkable sensitiveness to criticism or else a great lack of subjects for editorials. In the latter case I am glad to have furnished a slight stimulus to the laggard editorial pen; in the former case perhaps a slight explanation will help allay the indignation I have unwittingly excited...
...indeed we might expect when several hundred men are sitting in a room where the entrance of fresh air is so effectually prevented as it is in Memorial Hall. Threats and entreaties hitherto have been equally useless; "the windows cannot be opened during meal-time without making too great a draught," or "the hall has been sufficiently ventilated in the morning." We are not rash, but if something is not done soon to let in a little fresh air, we shall be inclined to come to dinner with several stones in our pockets, and quietly proceed...