Word: grossest
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Trinity Tablet approves of spelling-matches, and laments the fact that the students of Hartford are not enthusiastic enough to engage in a contest with the High School girls. It complains that many men of "considerable literary ability commit the grossest sins against syntax and orthography," and it holds that spelling-matches will reform them. The writer of this article is certainly free from the faults of the able gentlemen whom he mentions; whether he shares in any of their other characteristics may admit of dispute...
...larger number of misunderstandings between Faculty and students. The decisions of our instructors in matters which concern us most nearly are never distinctly, and in terms, made known to the mass of the students, but are spread by rumor in such a mutilated form as to create the grossest misconceptions. To prove this, one need only turn to the College journals, and notice the columns of matter explanatory of the College law. Such decisions as the present should appear on the bulletin-board in the precise terms in which they were passed, as naturally as the notice of any examination...