Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...persons attempted, by extensive canvassing, to secure the election of their favorites, might in itself be undeserving of blame; but when the class, through its Committee, had pledged itself to abstain from any action which should mar the desired open election, any canvass or combination was not only a gross violation of this pledge, but a direct insult and injury to the class. The qualifications of the candidates cannot at all lessen the justness of this censure, and only the universal satisfaction over the results of the election can cause it to be forgotten...
ARTICLE XIII. - EXPULSION.Any member may be expelled from the Association by a three-fourths vote of the Executive Committee, who is guilty of any misconduct or gross violation of any rule, or for nonpayment of dues within two weeks after they are levied...
...reporter! All this, however, does not exceed the bounds of decency. Of the second editorial, out of charity to the Courant, which was overcome by its feelings and is now probably repenting at leisure, we refrain from speaking; as we have said, it is a gross personal attack, which must now be causing deep regret to the hasty but gentlemanly editors of the Courant. Everybody is liable to lose his temper when put in the wrong, and we look upon this sad exhibition more in sorrow than in anger...
...opportunities for improvement, slovenly and vulgar pronunciation is to be expected; but the fact that men of three or four years' standing in a respectable college, who, sublimely ignoring dictionaries and the examples of all trustworthy authorities, will persist in calling half haff, and calf caff, shows both gross negligence in an important particular and godlike confidence in their own self-sufficiency...
...Dickinsonian publishes a poem entitled "Sub Silentio," which for indecency is unsurpassed. It is surprising that the public opinion of any American college, large or small, will tolerate such a thing; and if the gross sensuality of the Dickinson poet is at all characteristic of his college, a state of morals must exist there as low and as dangerous as the most ardent hater of liberal education could desire...