Word: crowds
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...team won the heavyweight boxing and wrestling championships of the University in the feature bouts of the tournaments held last night in the Union. His opponent in the boxing, G. K. Noble '17, showed himself a hard fighter, however, and the match furnished plenty of excitement to the large crowd in attendance. In the three rounds Snow knocked his rival down twice, and forced the fighting during the entire bout...
...great crowd of men that heard Captain Beith last night in the Union must have realized the tragic similarity between the unprepared condition of England at the beginning of the war and the present condition of our country. The spontaneous applause at the close of Captain Beith's talk was evidence that Harvard men approved the service that the speaker had given his country. Will patriotic undergraduates stop at mere approval of personal sacrifice, or will they mirror...
...representatives of the other nation. Let us hope that this particular manifestation of childishness will not be seen tonight. Our country is at an acute crisis. It cannot afford to make enemies, even in a way apparently so unimportant. Our Canadian opponents should be greeted by a large crowd in an enthusiastic spirit of friendly rivalry...
...aggregated. Cicero called a room without books "a body without a soul," and Carlyle tells us that a collection of books is "a real university." Without that collection in sight, ready for use, how beyond the reading of them shall we invoke with Sir John Lubbock, the "crowd of delicious memories, grateful recollections of peaceful home hours after the labors and anxieties of the day? How thankful we ought to be," he adds "for these inestimable blessings, for this numberless host of friends who never weary, betray or forsake us!" --Boston Herald...
...dance on Thursday night, February 8, is scheduled to open the list of events, and will be followed by the production of "A Full House" by the Dramatic Association. Friday's activities will begin with a hockey game between Dartmouth and Bishops College of Canada. From the rink the crowd will proceed to the golf links, where the first events of the intercollegiate ski and snowshoe meet will take place...