Word: crowding
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...handsome granite shaft to their memory, and then expend the rest in founding scholarships, than to sink the whole fund in a useless Babel of bricks and mortar. This monument of Harvard's alumni is no more profaned by the daily presence of her students than by the crowd of curious strangers that will throng it at Commencement. If every student, on leaving College, remembers the Memorial Hall as the place where some of his most enduring college friendships were formed and fostered; if he connects it in his mind with four years of genial intercourse around a social board...
...driven into solitude by some uncontrollable feeling of remorse, and, like that remarkable misanthrope, Timon of Athens, seek the woods, there may be enjoyment there, surrounded by all the beauties of nature, and he may make friends of these, and pass a pleasant existence. But surrounded by a crowd, as here, ready to join in adding to the comfort and pleasure of all their friends, it is an unnecessary freak, and only the outcropping of an intense egotism and vanity, adopted for the sake of attaining a notoriety, and adds nothing to him in the estimation of his classmates...
...Amherst Student is a good though rather heavy one. From a paragraph in it we infer that Amherst Sophomores emulate the far-famed boys of Marblehead in their reception of strangers. Visitors, especially ladies, are greeted with hoots and yells from the class of '76, assembled in a crowd for that purpose. The Student condemns his practice in words which are strong, but not too strong. The only poem in this number is a short but pretty one, called The Prayer of Phidias...
...long time before the wildly excited crowd could think of supper, the ball, or the darkness and drizzling rain. The exciting finish must be talked over again, and once in a while the enthusiasm of some knot of magenta-wearers broke out into cheers and songs...
...this immense crowd ever reached Spring-field without loss of life or limb, passing over poor roads and shaking bridges, in darkness and rain as they did, is a wonder...