Word: flowing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...weird spectacte and caused no end of amusement. Finally the train started. The rattle-brained porter became more and more perplexed and even the mildest natures in the car used their superlative expressions very freely. About midnight, after a storm of boots and valises, and the flow of oratory and wit. things quieted down a bit, the last few pairs of feet disappeared behind the curtains the e were a few last groans of dissatisfaction and the first night on the cars fairly began...
...dingy station and out into the smoky night. At he Burnet House, a Harvard graduate was waiting to take the fellows to the University Club for a dinner. Those who could drag their feet after one another accepted; the rest retired. The dinner was very pleasant and the flow of merry champagne soon warmed out the disappointment. Sunday it snowed. Some of the men went to Church for the Christmas music. The officers spent the day in trying to make arrangements for a concert Tuesday. As may readily be imagined, this was not an ideal Christmas and many...
...university more immediately before the minds of men in the Southern States than would, perhaps, otherwise be the case. There has always been a strong Southern element among the students in the University, and it needs but a little additional prominence in the attention of the yearly out flow from the Southern preparatory schools to bring the men in much larger numbers in our direction...
...water pipe and new meters have been put in for the free shower baths on the second floor, so that the flow of water in them will be independent of the other baths, and scarcity of water will be avoided...
...debate was interesting and at times very amusing. Rather strong assertions were made without the least hesitation and the different views sometimes bordered on the ludicrous, as when, for instance, the flow of immigration was likened to both that of a muddy river and of a golden stream. There were however some very good efforts made, though it was noticeable that none of the men who represented Harvard in the last debate took part in last evening's contest. There seemed to be on both affirmative and negative sides a misunderstanding of the real meaning of the question. The tendency...