Word: envelopment
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...financial cloud which threatened to envelop the rowing prospects of the University of Pennsylvania has cleared away. The lack of funds in the treasury of the Athletic Association rendered it necessary to make a special appeal to the students and alumni. The sum of $1500 was needed to carry the crew through the season, and although the full sum has not yet been subscribed, assurances have been received from the alumni that they will guarantee the necessary amount to keep the crew on the water. The loss of the eight to Pennsylvania would have been a severe blow to athletics...
...with shavings and paper saturated with kerosene, cart wheels, filched from a neighboring wheel wright's shop, front gates, fence rails, and in fact anything they could lay their hands on. The fool-hardiness of some who poured on kerosene from tin cans, which the flames almost seemed to envelop was extraordinary; it is only a wonder that the bon-fire had not served as a funeral pile for these rash youths. Balch, the anchor of the tug-of-war team, was the hero of the hour; again and again he was carried around the fire on the shoulders...
...other points, however, that may be overlooked by those who have not profited by bitter experience. The windows, for instance, in the University recitation-rooms are, in nine cases out of ten, so arranged as to throw the sunlight right into the faces of the class, and to envelop the instructor in a deep shadow, whence, like the Homeric gods, he can see without being seen. Unpleasant as it is to be unable to distinguish the instructor's expression or to see what he is looking at, it is still more unpleasant to have the light bewildering our notes...