Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Crimson have made last Saturday a red-letter day in the athletic annals of Harvard. For five years the Mott Haven cup has remained at Cambridge, and now it has come back to us for the sixth time, having been won by our track athletes in spite of the gross unfairness displayed by the managers of the intercollegiate games. Truly, the faithful work of the past year has met its fitting reward. The result of the game against Princeton was but another proof of the strength of our nine. As the score now stands we can see no reason...
There are at present 440 members of the Yale Co operative Society. Since the society was started on March 9 the gross sales have been $1,282, the average daily sales being from $25 to $30. The greatest sales on one day were...
...freshmen had three (3) lines extra in Greek last week. In class caucus they decided not to submit to such gross injustice.- Williams Fortnight...
Your correspondent does us a gross injustice by falsely misquoting us; even if this mistake happened simply through carelessness, it is almost inexcusable. We are quoted as saying that a man who hits his opponent hard enough to disable him, would be declared "fit only for the society of roughs and 'muckers.' " Such a statement was never made in the Advocate. What we did say was, that "such slugging may do among roughs and 'muckers,' but that it is wholly out of place before an audience largely composed of ladies." Such is still our opinion...
...interests at Cambridge. But the members of the committee have on several occasions unanimously criticised the action of Mr. Bancroft, both as adviser of the crew and as couth, and this has evidently been considered an undue interference on the part of the committee by your correspondent who does gross injustice to Mr. Watson...