Word: flowed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...than 60 institutions representing every type of higher education in every part of the country. It is larger by 42 per cent than in 1918 and larger by 21 per cent than in 1916, the record-breaking year of pre-war prosperity. So immense and insistent has been the flow of men, that for many colleges the old-time problem of how to attract more students has given way to the problem of how to take care of the students who want to enter...
...Flow of Large Gifts...
...took out my purse with the intention of buying an evening paper. Thereupon a sturdy fellow who was standing near twirling up his mustache struck me, first over the head with his stick, then in the face with his fist, smashing my glasses and causing the blood to flow freely from my nose. He then took possession of my purse and thrust it in his pocket, calling loudly for the police. An officer of the law happened to be near at hand. He drew near and addressed us in polished tones, somewhat as follows...
Captain Cordier's scheme for training of reserve officers approved by War. Department. New scheme will make it possible to commission graduates and Seniors as soon as their services are needed and also to provide a steady flow of officers for new units if organized. Sergeants Bryan and Cockrill, United States Army, ordered to report for duty at Harvard. Other non-commissioned officers will follow...
...more thoughtful elements among the alumni; but they are elements that can be dealt with and eventually eliminated. But with the game roaring through the country on a strictly professional basis no great stretch of imagination is required to picture effects on the college game--the flow of players from university to professional elevens, and all the accruing scandal and innuendo, not to mention other features which will readily occur to the average follower of college sports. How long would any self-respecting university stand such a condition? How long would it be before in righteous wrath intercollegiate football...