Word: big
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...places to the crew. In direct contradiction to this statement, comes the fact that John C. Adams, of Oakland, Cal., has resigned from the third senior society. Nicholas Minor Goodlett, Jr., '86, of Evansville, Ind., has also resigned from the same society. One thing is certain; there is a big row in the secret society, and if common reports can be believed, it is over the 'varsity crew. - Boston Advertiser...
Although it is very late to "boom" a sophomore dinner, yet the importance of the matter makes energetic action imperative. We must have a dinner, a big and a successful one too, and it must take place before the last of next week...
...stump's" coxswain was W. H. Goodwin, weight, 110 pounds. The great weight of the big crew brought the top of their shell down almost to the water's edge. The race was for a supper to be given by the vanquished, but both crews were so thoroughly pumped that the banquet has been postponed for a few days. The students took great interest in the contest, and crowds of them watched it from start to finish. - N. Y. Times...
Lafayette will enter Godshall, '87, who has a record of 10 feet in the pole vault, and Rohrback, '87, who has made a big record in putting the shot...
...mind a singular celebration, which I cannot quote accurately because I have not the paper near at hand which gave the account of it. Last year a German university - Heidelberg I think - attained a ripe age among the hundreds. The thousands of students, under several committees, got up a big costume procession after the manner of the Trades-Unions processions of the olden time. The characteristic incidents in the history of the University were represented - the different college societies and organizations of to-day were illustrated by their members - and whether the faculty marched themselves or were personified...