Word: grossest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that one room; without it I shall not have sufficient space to carry out my programme; with it everything will pass off well. However much right the gentleman may have to the use of his room it seems to me that it is an act of the grossest selfishness for him to enforce that right. This view of the case, I think, will be taken by the majority of undergraduates...
...rather lax efforts on the part of the yard authorities, that most objectionable element of Cambridge society, an element the thought of which means quite as much as the name, has besieged the college dormitories. And here for its labors this objectionable element finds opportunities for the grossest kind of misbehavior, and accepts them most assiduously. What it can put its hands on, it takes; what it can destroy, it destroys; what does not suit its degraded taste it very soon tones down to that taste by its own peculiar processes. And so property is stolen, doors are marred...
Again we must emphasize the complaint, so often made, that men using the library, and especially those who draw books, are guilty of the grossest carelessness. And word has recently come to us from Mr. Winsor, the librarian, which seems to imply that this carelessness, presumably by processes of evolution, is passing into something of a far worse nature. For the sake of euphemism, however, and that we may not run the risk of making any great mistakes, we will still continue to call this failure to return books to the library "carelessness," and permit those who may read this...
...institution of note in this country which has not suffered from the stings and arrows of the outrageous Monday Lectureship, and Harvard least of all has been exempt from its attacks. The latest sufferer, however, is the University of Leyden, the students of which have been accused of the grossest immorality by Mr. Cook. Strange to say this accusation is indignantly denied by the rector of the university. But little weight, however, can be attached to such a denial in the face of the contrary assertion by the Lectureship. Besides, it is a notorious fact that college students everywhere...
...cafe he is sure to be at some brasserie. The brasseries can be described briefly as cafes of the lowest character. Then, again, there is the masked ball, where the students congregate Thursday and Saturday nights - not only to make fools of themselves but to commit the grossest excesses. Refinement seems to be banished by common consent from the Latin Quartier, and to one who has determined to reside there a year it becomes long before the year is up a most loathsome and disgusting place. If an American graduate, he soon begins to sigh for home. If a Harvard...