Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...only a few cases, we should have been inclined to regard it as a pardonable mistake, but so many men seem to have been served in this manner, that those who have the charge of such matters must expect to be severely censured by the whole association for gross negligence, or, what is just as bad, utter incapacity for the duties assigned to them. We would like to ask who would satisfy the claims of the aggrieved parties if the hall should be closed on the date assigned. Never before has there been occasion to mention any such a serious...
...gross total of outrages committed in Ireland in December is 574. The largest number of cases occurred in Munster. King's county has been proclaimed...
...Horse-Car ist gar zu gross...
...College at heart, who see clearly that it cannot suffer in one department without suffering in all, should use every legitimate effort to maintain English as a required study. Surely nothing is more important than that one understands as thoroughly as maybe his own language; and when the gross ignorance of English even among college-bred men is considered, it becomes a matter of grave moment that Harvard, foremost in so many things, should not be backward in undertaking a change for the better in this direction...
...makes the indignity the more to be censured. For a private individual who did such a thing would simply be despised for his ill-breeding; whereas, in an official, few things are more culpable than an overstepping of his powers, either through ignorance or perversity, or than a gross violation of official decorum. Of one of these offences the Bursar is guilty. Will he try to clear himself...