Word: boom
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...players that it didn't affect the University much whether they won or lost, has been responsible for many Harvard defeats in the past. Last year there were a number of exceptionally good and enthusiastic cricketers in college, and the result was that the game had a temporary boom, occupied the minds of a number of men throughout a longer preparation than usual, and finally ended the season with a clean record of victories. This year the example has been followed yet more conscientiously in regard to the training, and the success of last year has had the effect...
...member of the junior class, and of one of the school debating clubs. As an undergraduate he was a member of his Freshman Union, and later joining the Yale Union, he did much work for the college, which then passed almost unnoticed, as the debating "boom" had not yet commenced. But when it did come he had a good foundation waiting for it. He was vice-president in his junior year, being reelected to a second term of office in the middle of the year. He was one of the speakers for the Townsend prize, and in his senior year...
BELCHER'S Dining Boom, Lyceum Building, Harvard square. Board $7.00 per week...
...March "Tschin-Boom" Kraus...
Harvard is unusually strong in the states west of the Mississippi. In the Chio valley, on the contrary, is Yale's stronghold. Before the war a large part of her many graduates settled in that region, and made a great boom for Yale. Since the war, however, Harvard has been sending more of her men out West and the results are now showing. This growing interest in Harvard is likely to result in a still further representation in our college and graduate school from the western schools and colleges...