Word: crowded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...cold water supply. Every day it takes ten or fifteen minutes to regulate the temperature of the water so as to make it bearable, either the hot water will flow and the cold will not or vice versa. In meantime the bath-room is becoming packed with a crowd of human beings who are naturally anxious to make use of the shower-bath, but find so many men ahead of them that they are forced to wait a long time, in course of which the same old trouble in regulating the temperature of the water is undergone. The gymnasium authorities...
...took their run. Having one street thus put apart for the use of students, people who do not like to encounter the crews on the street avoided North avenue in the afternoons. It is certainly unpleasant for ladies walking on the street to find themselves suddenly surrounded by a crowd of scantily clad men running at a good speed. It is therefore no more than just to the Cambridge people, who could easily put a stop to all running in the streets if they wished, that all the men should run on one street, and leave the others...
...University will speak; all else,- the music, the arrangements for time and place, the gathering of the audience-is in the hands of students. The aim is to reach the great class whom ordinary religious methods do not reach, not the slums alone, but such people as crowd the streets Sunday evenings. To appeal to no higher motive, this is one way, not perfect or complete, but certainly not visionary, of grappling with those tendencies in city life, which are a growing menace to the community. It is eminently fitting that Harvard should lead in such an attack...
...song in which every other line terminated in a lengthy, nasal, trumpeting sound, were the favorites, and called forth immense applause and many encores. John then told some of his college experiences, among which was the great and only theatre-party tale, in which John once figured with a crowd of "shtudents." To crown the glory which his little variety then procured for him, he pulled out of a hidden recess, a carefully tied up parcel, which he unrolled very gingerly, and at length displayed to the admiring audience a large crimson rosette with which he was going to decorate...
...seldom been our misfortune to meet a "fresher" crowd of men than the Harvard freshmen, they must have been freshmen, who occupied the coach at Exeter.- Philippians...