Word: crowds
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Shortly before that time a fire broke out in a pile of timber in front of the new Architectural Building and four engines responded to an alarm that was rung in. The fire was extinguished very quickly, but a large crowd of students collected at once and surrounded the engines. The horses drawing the chemical engine started forward suddenly and dashed through the crowd. Bigelow, who was directly in front of the engine, was knocked down by the horses and was crushed by one of the wheels...
Literature rests on the love of a good book. A book is the product of the age and hour in which it is brought forth, and it reflects the passions and the feelings of the crowd. To study changing literary tastes is to approach human life in all its aspects. It takes no knowledge of philosophy to do this, because observation is all that is necessary. Literary fashions are affected by the climate, the religion and the politics of the land. Just as the fashions of a country are sometimes curious, sometimes amusing, so are the literary tastes of that...
...yard runs were a doubtful criterion of speed, as it was impossible for the large field of competitors to run a fair race on the narrow track. In the 600-yard handicap M. W. Long of Columbia was practically crowded out by the slow men in front of him and could do no better than second place, J. M. Burke of Holy Cross winning in 1m. 18 4-5s. D. W. Franchot of Yale was much faster than his opponents in the 1000-yard run, but because of the crowd he won by only a few feet. The time...
Professor Josiah Royce will deliver a lecture at the Cambridge Y.M.C.A. tonight on the subject "The Crowd and the Individual Man." Undergraduates may obtain tickets on application at the rooms of the Association...
...should like to protest, through your columns, against the behavior of the crowd toward some of the players in the Bates game. The pointless jeering at men who represent their College and who are working their hardest for the team, is the very height of bad taste. The noise occurred, not in the admission stand, but in the centre of the season ticket section, and consequently must have come, in part at least, from undergraduates. Harvard men have always treated opposing teams with courtesy; why should they now cheapen themselves by making members of their own team the butt...