Word: crowds
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...robbery and brawls increased. The Californian camp of '48 was one of men who had no intention of making California their home and only full of a desire to make money. Although heroism and generosity sometimes prevailed, yet there was no stable system. Upon this fragile framework fell the crowd of "forty miners," and the result, as may be imagined, was most disastrous...
...some colleges between the sophomore and freshman classes en masse. It is merely a species of wrestling by representatives of the two classes for the possession of three canes. A heavy weight, middle weight, and light weight champion is selected from each class. At the appointed time, a great crowd collects in a ring on the campus, and then the heavy, middle, and light weight couples contest seperately for the canes. Last Tuesday the annual cane spree occurred at Princeton. The first spree, the light weight, was won by a freshman, who, as the Princetonian says, "after four rounds...
...unusually large crowd of spectators assembled on Holmes yesterday afternoon to witness the freshman games. The damp, chilly air made it unpleasant enough for the spectators, and doubly disagreeable for the thinly clad contestants. The only redeeming feature of the afternoon was the promptness with which the clerk of course, R. D. Smith, Jr., caused the events to be run off. The summary is as below...
...announcement that Vice-President Hendricks and Ex-Minister Lowell were to be present at the exercises on Commencement Day sufficed to draw an immense crowd to Cambridge on the 24th day of June last. First came the meeting of the overseers at 9.15 a.m. The usual number of honorary degrees were conferred, but apart from that nothing of importance was transacted...
...moments the noise around Winthrop Point was deafening, then the crowd slowly dispersed, and the great race of 1885 was over...