Word: crowding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...large crowd of students and about 500 outsiders were turned away from Appleton Chapel Sunday evening...
...large force of police were found necessary to keep the crowd back during the exercises in Sanders Theatre...
Appleton Chapel was crowded to its utmost capacity. The audience was a notable one - with a sprinkling of the invited guests of the University, and a great crowd of graduates. The undergraduates who were fortunate enough to be first in the number that gathered at the north door, were admitted ten minutes before the service began. Before the rest had entered the standing room of the chapel was exhausted and the door was forced shut in spite of the pressure from the outside. The Anniversary Choir, with its magnificent volume of sound, again took part in the service. The hymn...
After the races the crowd left the boat-house and made their way to Sanders Theatre, where the Undergraduate exercises were taking place...
...before the altar in the parish church of Stratford, one morning in 1605, when her father, a substantial burgher of the town, gave her away to young Robert Harvard, of Southwark. Who knows but that the poet, just then at work upon his Lear, may have stood in the crowd of friends about that altar and have heard the sweet voice of Katharine Rogers repeat her vows; who knows but, on his return to his desk, Shakespeare bore with him a reminiscence of that sweet voice, and of that young bride, destined to become in more senses than...