Word: crowds
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...victories ever did or ever can. It was not the work of eleven men and their substitutes but the feat of a thousand men and their officers. So large a representation could be taken as the measure of Harvard's whole undergraduate body. It made no difference that the crowd of spectators was thousands less than the throng which goes to a football game to gain public applause, they entered to help prepare themselves for an hour of national need. Their enrolment, the manner in which they have discharged their duties, their appearance today in the Stadium incarnated Harvard spirit...
More colleges are entered in the outdoor events than ever before. The recent snowfall has put the ski and snowshoe courses and the ski jump in the best of condition and a record-breaking crowd of visitors has assembled...
...about represent a complete change in prison government. No longer are the men watched and spied upon by "stool pigeons." They are treated as men and as such are placed on their honor. The men have risen to their new opportunities. Recently a prisoner escaped and at once a crowd of volunteers offered to go in search of the fugitive. The band, 16 in number, set out in charge of one guard. They were gone all night and had plenty of opportunity to escape, yet the next day, all returned. Afterward one of the party came to Mr. Osborne...
Little attention was paid this contest by the public, mention of it being found in only one Boston paper, and that confined to a scant ten lines announcing the game and ending with this single sentence of general criticism of the affair. "There was a large crowd and much enthusiasm." In spite of the lack of general interest which it aroused, this game on May 15, 1874, marked the beginning of a football regime which has reached its highest point before 49,000 spectators today...
...Yale game extra this afternoon, giving a play-by-play account of the football game in the Stadium, together with the results of the intercollegiate cross-country race at Franklin Field this morning. The extra will go on sale immediately after the game, by the time the returning crowd reaches Harvard square after the game. The extra will contain eight pages, and will cost 10 cents...