Word: flocks
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Excelsis" is sung, and the Vice-President bids you a Merry Christmas. The whole scene is striking and unique, and well worthy of its academic surroundings. Queen's College, even more than Magdalen, confers benefit on the public, by the retention of old customs. The large number that flock to the Hall every Christmas Day, to see the Boars head, attest the popularity of that timehonored dish, and the ceremony therewith. In fact, it frequently happens that people are turned away from the College gates from lack of more space within the precincts. Precisely at five o'clock...
...fertile, low-lying plain, surrounded and traversed by the Cam, sets off well the dark mass of buildings with the famous stone bridge, from which the name Cambridge is derived. As early as the twelfth century, pale faced students, who burned their lamps far into the night, began to flock to the place and were compelled at first to board out among the few miserable dwellings of the town. One by one the colleges were founded until, in Milton's time, the supremacy of Oxford University was threatened. As in Oxford the colleges all face upon one broad street, while...
...pump in front of Stoughton refuses to yield water, no matter how rigorous the efforts of the thirsty student are, and the pump near Matthews has been without a handle for two months. No wonder that we flock in despair to Adams...
...state of things, '88, the so-called freshman class, went to work last evening with a will which evening with a will which even the sanctity of old Boylston could not withstand Remembering the old saying, "A thing well begun is half done," the freshmen colleged like a flock of sheep before the cold grey steps of Boylston Hall, and there they patiently sat for nearly an hour, until the janitor of the building could be found and the key fitted to the door. Then the fun began. The freshman crowded into the hall, the sophomores crowded into the hall...
...mediaeval times, when students flocked to the universities by thousands, the extortions by lodging-house keepers became intolerable, and energetic measures were devised to repress them, as at Oxford, at Paris and at Bologna. Students do not yet flock to Harvard in such multitudes; but the growth of the university in recent years has been so rapid and the increase in the number of students has been so great, that the available means of personal accommodation have been quite unequal to the demand. This fact undoubtedly reflects high honor upon the faculty, instructors and government of the institution...