Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...which in lingua vernacula significes "May Fortune and the Faculty favor the sons as they have their fathers." Yesterday we published the first of a series of articles recalling the victories and defeats and hard-won fights of the various notable athletic teams which have represented Fair Harvard on flood and field in bygone days. The compiler of these historical potpourris has many a curious legend to tell, - of how that famous crew of 185 - , or was it 186, - when hard pressed by her mighty opponents on Lake Winnipiseogee, and almost swamped by the mighty sea and threatening waves, succeeded...
...Labor, received due praise. Students of political economy, and especially college students, are fortunate in possessing a magazine which will give clear, reliable and concise discussions of the great economical questions. Amid the confused mass of economic literature of to-day, when superficial writers are so abundant, when a flood of pamphlets, often as obscene in language as they are mistaken in facts, threatens to involve the student in endless perplexity, it is a relief to turn to authors of established reputation in their departments. That the "Quarterly Journal of Economics" should prove so successful in its purpose must...
...hail the news that at last, after so much weary waiting, the students of Harvard University are to be removed ex tenebris and introduced into the light of knowledge with keen delight. In fancy we see the pointed windows of Gore Hall pouring forth a flood of cheerful light over the snowbound wastes leading to Harvard street on one hand and to Sever Hall on the other...
...frequently upon the great subject of Beer. Beer is to the German what poetry is to the poet - the native language of his soul. No celebration of any kind is complete without it. No matter upon what solemn occasion a Teuton enters, no matter how exalted the emotions which flood his soul or how abstruse the speculations which engage his thoughts, he must be sustained throughout by constant communion with his froth-crowned schooner...
...foul which Allen caught yesterday afternoon was one of the prettiest occurrences in the game. The reporters were not a little surprised to find their table upset and their score books deluged in a flood of ice water. The pluck with which Allen ran into the formidable "board" elicited unbounded applause...