Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...said concerning those students, happily not many in number, who make themselves conspicious at prayers by reaching for hat and books as soon as the hymn is ended, and starting down the aisle before the benediction is half out of the minister's mouth. These things are a gross discourtesy to the great majority who, no matter what they may think about the advisability of morning prayers as now carried on, still feel they owe it to themselves to behave respectfully; - to say nothing of those who join in the service for deeper reasons. Those who make the disturbance seem...
First, the action of the Harvard faculty in prohibiting the Harvard team from longer playing in the inter-collegiate association. Secondly, the gross reports which were published regarding the game played on the Polo Ground, Thanksgiving Day. Thirdly, the report of the Harvard committee, which was sent throughout the country; and, fourthly, the action of the Princeton faculty. Of these causes the reports of the daily papers on the Thanksgiving day game did more to cause a decline in foot-ball than all the other causes combined. - N. Y. Sportsman...
...leading daily papers to bring discredit on their Alma Mater by sensational writing is becoming day by day more noticeable. If any reporter exaggerates what he hears, he is to be severely criticized. For the college-man who endeavors to make capital for himself or for his paper by gross misrepresentations of college events, no criticism is too sharp, no condemnation too severe. A man, who can so forget his own honor as to bring by any wilful action any stain on the good name of his own college, ought to be regarded as a source of harm...
...hundred fold." The communication printed in another column in reference to a previous editorial on "religious decadence" at Harvard, as pictured in a prominent New York paper, is surely of the "hundred fold." We fully appreciate the shock which the writer's devout spirit has experienced at our "gross misrepresentation" of the article in question. It has never been the custom for a non-sectarian college newspaper man to read between the lines even in "his excitement." Nor is "his anger" aroused at a statement which bears upon its face its utter falsity. Any Harvard student who is willing...
...deserves public notice. The prominent bookstore whose trade is most seriously affected by the Co-operative Society is not content to charge, as a counter irritant, exorbitant prices for all articles which are necessary to the student, but has now added to its system of trade a course of gross misrepresentation concerning the prices charged by the Co-operative Society. The whole attitude of such opposition to the society is rendered more irritating by the fact that the booksellers in particular are aided in their systematic course of overcharging by many of the college instructors who make them the medium...