Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There has, however, been nothing in the conduct of the managers of our crew which should call forth such a deluge of venom and abuse from the News. Charitably supposing that the writer of the article is not guilty of gross misrepresentation nor deliberate falsehood - for we are loth to believe that even of the News - we are forced to conclude that the News was grossly ignorant of the facts and possibilities of the case, and, in publishing such a scurrilous article under such circumstances, was misled by its ignorance...
...Harvard," says the Yale News in a late issue, "has a Co-operative Association for the direct purchase of books and students' indispensables generally." The News should not allow itself to be misled by such unfounded rumors as the above. We had previously chided the News for making the gross misrepresentation of saying that ground had actually been broken for the new Harvard Law School. If things go on at this rate, we may soon expect to hear that Memorial Hall has been completed, or that Harvard has a Dining Association six hundred strong, or some other, equally wild...
Setting aside the gross misrepresentations and violent language of the editorial, the actual facts that it states are these: 1 - Old meat was delivered at the hall by the contractors, and the evil discovered by the employes before the meat was cooked; and 2 - some of the waiters are inefficient...
Dear Madam : As to the newspaper statement which you inclose, that the number of students here has been largely decreased by the admission of young women to the lecture-rooms and laboratories, it is simply a very gross error. A careful examination of our record shows that no diminution in the number of students took place at the admission of young women, but that it was caused by the steady raising of our standard of admission year after year in all our departments, which cut off a considerable number of applicants for admission who had formerly been freely received...
...Gross Professorship of Pathological Anatomy has been established by the alumni at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia...