Word: booming
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...about $100,000 should be built, and if a good proportion of that sum is subscribed, as is believed it will be, Yale will possess the much needed gymnasium. When we remember the large number of candidates for the foot-ball team, the nine and the crew, the great "boom" which a suitable gymnasium would give to Yale athletics can be readily imagined...
...Mott Haven teams for the last six-years, that, for lack of a little energy to raise the sum of $4.500, we will not support our previous victories? To say nothing of the want in itself of a Grand Stand, which is greatly felt, it would give a boom to athletics which is much needed at present. Our spirit of over confidence is too great. The mere fact that the Mott Haven Cup has been in our gymnasium for the last six years won't bring...
...Mott Haven cup on the same eventful day. But, even on this great occasion, the college exulted without firecrackers and horns; and, furthermore, this was the only celebration of the year. Now, however, a class victory is sufficient to turn the college into an uproar, and often the boom of the firecracker is heard in the yard merely when some individual is festive on his own account. And yet this noisy sort of hilarity is forbidden by the regulations. The connection between these forbidden demonstrations and the Athletic committee, if there is one, (we merely offer the suggestion) lies...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: -The elevated railroad boom has set in, if we may believe what recently appeared in a Boston paper, and every man at Harvard wants to rejoice that the street cars which are now supposed to run [?] between Boston and Cambridge, are to be a thing of the past. For, who is there, that has never undergone the agony of sitting, half crushed-or, rather, owing to the unfortunate abundance of Cambridge females, of standing in the cold, crowded car, and peering frantically through the darkness in a vain attempt to discover the yard, which one never seems...
...Therefore, all those skaters among the students who are interested in the game of Hockey are requested to meet this evening in Stoughton 20 for the purpose of forming a Harvard Hockey Club. It is hoped that a good number of men will attend and give the movement the boom which it deserves...