Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...correspondent this morning undertakes to explain and justify the accounts of the University Boat Club which were published in our columns on the seventh instant. In doing so he accuses us of gross ignorance in regard to boat matters. While we are not ready to admit this assertion in full, we are perfectly willing to allow our correspondent a much larger share of knowledge of these matters than we possess. But he goes further and censures us for demanding an itemized account of such a figure as $693.48 for wages. We reserve the right to ourselves, and we think every...
...short. And Yale demonstrated by her game with Harvard that it could be done, and what was lacking besides to secure the balance of advantage for victory Yale achieved through better kicking. Princeton could hardly be expected also to equal Harvard in rushing with a rush line of a gross weight even more disproportionate to Harvard's than Yale's, which from the start of the match was crippled by the loss of the most powerful and skilled rusher of it. But the Harvard-Princeton game was certainly a splendid demonstration of what the rushing of a heavy team...
...history, took a fresh start under American auspices. An old broadside, preserved in the Columbia Library, contains the statutes of the college for 1785 and a "Plan of Education," whereby it appears that history was first taught in what was then a unique way for America. The Rev. John Gross, Professor of German and Geography, from 1784 to 1795, taught the sophomore class three times a week, in a course which was characterized as a "Description of the globe in respect of all matters: Rise, extent and fall of ancient empires; chronology as low as the fall of the Roman...
...marking string lying across the field more dangerous still when he took a header over it during the game. Home plate, as I said before, was not removed till a player had to be carried away from previous contact with it. These things were all owing to the gross negligence of the managers; but with every precaution, the ground is dangerous and unfit to play on: it is covered with cinders, full of holes, has a running track and a base-ball diamond on it, and above all, is absurdly small. Every probability points to some one being seriously hurt...
...That a record be kept of the profits made on each member's purchases; and that, at the end of the fiscal year, the net profits of the entire business be divided among the members in the proportion which the gross profit made on each member's transactions bears to the total gross profits made on the transactions of all the members. But before dividing net profits, a certain part, to be determined by the directors is to be retained to cover depreciation of stock, and a further part retained to increase the Society's capital...