Word: crowds
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...river, nothing very noteworthy has occurred during the past week. The same number of enthusiasts nightly crowd the boat-house piazza, with open eyes and watches, trying, if possible, to detect the superiority of one crew over another; while the same earnest discussions go on in Style vs. Muscle...
...waggish Junior who excitedly held forth to a wondering crowd of fellow-students on the dangers of an elevated sewer during a commercial panic, afterwards explained that he was only referring to a drain on Banks...
...Lexington and Concord Centennial Celebration went off on Monday with great eclat. The pageantry was most imposing, the crowd immense; and it is hoped that by careful scrutiny of the historical relics, by the bleak march over the hills, and by elbowing a way through sixty thousand pairs of shoulders (and we passed some of them twice), we have generated sufficient patriotism to support a reasonable amount of inflation and force-bill. It is useless for us to attempt even a short description of what was to be seen, when we consider that there are fourteen daily newspapers published within...
...dinner and the ball were as successful as could be expected. The crowd was remarkably orderly and good-natured, - a consummation which was doubtless due to the wise action of the authorities in prohibiting rigorously the sale of all intoxicating drinks. The towns-people, however, were most hospitable, and did not withhold the refreshing cup from the weary pilgrim. Our most earnest thanks are due the Reception Committee of Lexington for the cordial welcome we received at their hands...
...Wednesday afternoon half a dozen Sophomores made a bet of a wine supper with some of their comrades, that they could pass entirely through the Fifth Ward with orange ribbons in their button-boles. They had got nearly through when a crowd pitched into them, and they ignominiously fled, but ran on in the direction in which they had been going, got through...