Word: booming
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Hamilton, Ham-il-ton! Z-z-zip-rah-boom...
Princeton, 'Rah! 'Rah! 'Rah! S-s-s-t! Boom...
University of New York, N! Y! U! S-s-s-t! Boom...
...little importance to the university," goes on to say that since it interfered with tennis, "it has been almost an unmitigated nuisance." This is the first clear indication of the growing power of lacrosse, since the Advocate thought it worth while to attack it. But lacrosse now began to boom. On Feb. 23, 1882, it was voted to "invite the lacrosse associations of Princeton, New York University and Columbia to meet in New York city," but this meeting was delayed until today, when the delegates are expected to meet in Cambridge, and the result, it may be hoped, will make...
...moment. During the past two years several college matches and matches with the neighboring clubs have been played, but the interest in the college seems to have been gradually failing. Last autumn we thought we would see if something could not be done to give the cricket interest a boom. Notices of various kinds were inserted in the college papers, the men were brought out to practice as regularly as the matter would permit, and challenges were sent to all the neighboring clubs. The fall season is necessarily short, as we do not get back until the first of October...