Word: boom
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first half of the Princeton-Harvard game it was an even thing-the sky was blue, the sun shone, the Harvard cannon boomed and everything was lovely-everybody was happy and cried, "The finest game of foot ball ever seen!" The second half, the sky clouds and lowers, the sun disappears the cannon ceases to boom, and the complaints of slugging, unfair play, and Ames resound and increase with Princeton's score, till at the close Princeton is pronounced a brute, a knave, a liar. The Princeton players were, heavier men and older men than Harvard and could stand...
...stage a short comedy by Jules Moineau. In doing this it is following the excellent and successful precedent of last year, when this formerly almost dormant society blossomed forth into one of the most active of literary societies at Harvard. The successful performance of last year gave a great boom to the society, and its immediate result was a large increase in the number of members, all taking a great interest in the welfare and progress of the society. We trust that this, the second attempt will meet with the same success as the initial one did, and will firmly...
Just at present the Association game as played on the other side is under-going a boom in and around Boston. Not long ago two star players, Priest and Westwood, arrived here from England, and were much disappointed at finding that foot-ball as they know it was almost unknown here. They were professional players in England, and on settling here they conceived the scheme of instructing twenty-two athletes in the fine points of the game and forming two elevens to play matches. No sooner had they started in to develop the game than they found that there...
Cricket will probably receive a boom in this country next spring. Efforts are being made in England to organize a gentlemen's team of cricketers, similar to the eleven which visited this country in 1885, to play matches in Philadelphia, New York and Canada. Correspondence in regard to arrangements for the visit is now in progress. An eleven from the North of England has also arranged to visit this country next summer...
HARVARD DEFEATED.-AN EXCITING CONTEST.After the Columbia race, Harvard's boating stock seemed to take a decided boom. Everyone decided to go to New London to see the race, and as Harvard had beaten the record it was taken for granted that Yale must have to row a desperate race...