Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...think every well wisher of the Association will agree with me that some change ought to be made by which men who reach the Hall at nine o'clock can get away before ten. And further, that a failure to compass such a change, will indicate either gross mismanagement, or gross negligence on the part of the officers of the Association...
...discussion of the cribbing question by the Conference Committee is interpreted by the Acta Columbiana in a manner that does gross injustice to the committee. Our contemporary says: "The Conference Committee at that college, in view of the cheating indulged in at the semi-annual examinations this year, has submitted a report to the faculty recommending that the penalty for cribbing be expulsion from the college instead of suspension." What the Conference Committee has done is this. Its members have recommended that the regulation regarding cribbing in the published rules, which prescribes suspension or other penalty judged proper...
...your issue of the 12th inst, you published an editorial criticising the reported action of the Yale faculty in regard to Prof. E. R. Thompson's course of lectures at Yale on Protection. The error into which so reputable a paper as the CRIMSON has fallen, and the gross injustice which it does Yale, whether intentionally or not, has led your correspondent to gain the official facts in the matter and beg leave to ask for their publication...
...those teams. The alumni think that all the financial resources of the various teams taken as a whole, should be exhausted before they are asked to contribute. Then, feeling that they were aiding the whole circle of athletics, they would step forward and make up the deficiencies in the gross amount...
...having a Glee Club that was to give a concert. We do not ourselves see, in any one of the matters above mentioned, grounds for the charges of irreligion and excessive athleticism and social dissipation, that have been showered down with the customary amount of poor taste and gross ignorance. Harvard has often been attacked on just these same points; and doubtless she must ever expect such attacks as long as their exists a class of writers who are so bold as to write on what they know nothing about, to impart with apparent sincerity, impressions and ideas which...