Word: booming
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Bowdosn Orient, in a list of college cheers, credits Harvard with "Rah! Rah! Rah! S-e-e-t! Boom...
Veterinary education has received another boom, following close on the establishment of a department in the science at Harvard. Mr. J. B. Lippincott, of Philadelphia, has offered $10,000 to the veterinary department of the University of Pennsylvania on condition that $15,000 additional be subscribed by others...
...composed of the four regular substitutes for the university boat, and will very probable compete in the Lake George regatta. Now these crews are all to be maintained besides the regular class crews, and it is easily seen that such a condition of affairs will tend to a tremendous boom in rowing, which can not fail to make a marked improvement in the quality of Yale's work at the oar. It seems to us that it would be well for our rowing men to emulate them, and to start a corresponding boom, Why can not we have a second...
...formation of a second eight be thought impracticable, the selection of a university "four" from the unsuccessful candidates for the university would still be possible and have almost as much effect in stimulating interest in rowing as the more extended plan. In any case we feel that a boom in rowing here would be an excellent thing, even now, when we have been most successful in this branch of athletics, and we would earnestly urge the boat club to give careful consideration to our proposition...
Harvard is determined to retain its laurels as premier in athletics during the season of 1883-84. football, lawntennis, lacrosse, baseball, boating, bicycling and cricket and track athletics have begun with a boom, and the prospect is excellent for even a more successful season than last year. Victorious on the river, in athletics, bicycling and lacrosse, with a record to be proud of and with a standard in base-ball, cricket and foot-ball in every way creditable, it stands ahead of any other college in the country...