Word: crowding
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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TERROR and dismayreigned in the halls of the Vatican. Never since the appearance of the comet as an uninvited guest at the siege of Constantinople, had the Papal Council been in such a quandary. Through the long halls, the lofty salons, rushed a perturbed crowd of pallid dignitaries. Canons, bishops, cardinals, filled the passage-ways. Even the monks and friars who were on prayer-duty dropped their beads and hastened to the scene of excitement. A stream of Ecclesiastical big guns who were off duty came pouring up the cellar stairs. In a great chair, at the foot...
...make himself a gentleman, he can become the pinchbeck imitation thereof, and if he cannot attract notice in one way he can in another. No one would bear any ill-will to a man who snorted in chapel through ignorance, but if he continued to disgust a crowd of men because he thought it funny, he would be in a very different position. Nor is a young man's failure to make a good speech at a public dinner at all inexcusable, but "funny" allusions to the Faculty as an old hen reflect no credit upon the society which permits...
...came to College that I was fully aware of the magnitude of the evil. And it is to pray for a last chance of reclamation for myself and my companions in distress, that I write this article. When the weed of indiscriminate charity becomes so vigorous as to crowd a decent fellow-sprig out of existence, the time were come, it would seem, for a little interference. So much humbug has crept into the charity of to-day, that "the greatest of these three" is at war with the chief purposes of a higher education...
...Gymnasium, to be sure, is open all day; but when recitations crowd as close upon one another as people in a Cambridge street-car, the journey there and back to our rooms, together with the attendant nuisance of getting into exercising costume and out of it again, consumes more time than we can spare...
...Senior students we have had an eventful life, we have been ferried into the longed-for haven, we have come into the full inheritance of the legacy of our Alma Mater; yet it is suggested to us, not indeed to be ungrateful, but to crowd it back into our hearts, unacknowledged and unexpressed. I do not wish to be guilty of sophism. The article named rather attacks the office of our Chaplain as a mockery of a sacred duty. But such it is not. Though some may laugh, shall we, through fear of them, hesitate to express our thanks openly...