Word: boom
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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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...
Boating matters are having a great boom at present, owing to the determination of the college to row its annual class race in eights instead of fours. Ward, the well known oarsman, is in charge of the crews, and coaches them in turn every afternoon. The Schuylkill river offers facilities for boating such as very few colleges possess...
...York papers are speaking of the recent boom in lacrosse, but continue to refer to Princeton as the holder of the Oelrichs...
...this rumor is true. The loss of Yale from the association last year was very severely felt, and we should welcome her back this year with open arms. The series with Yale in it will be twice as interesting as it was last year, and will give a needed boom to lacrosse, which will be very welcome to its supporters. Yale defeated Harvard two years ago; she has a large number of her best players still in college, and she ought to send a team here this year that would make a contest with our champion team decidedly lively. Every...
...athletic interests of the university have suddenly taken a boom, and especially the interest in the navy. The outlook for Cornell in aquatic contests never was brighter than at present. There are fourteen men in training who give promise of becoming as expert oarsmen as those who in past years have given the name of Cornell such pre-eminence in inter-collegiate contests. They are peculiarly fortunate in being under the supervision of that year's crew. A year ago now, it looked as though Cornell was not to be represented in the inter-collegiate contests...