Word: infested
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...forced to stomach a good many unpleasant doses. But it does seem as if, when a thing is so cheap, and abundant as water, and withal so necessary, we might have the pure article. The water furnished at Memorial is naturally a little turbid. But the animals which now infest it are conspicuous, even among the floating particles of lint which thicken it. If anyone will take the trouble to look in his glass in the morning he will see them skipping about in high glee. Better water than this can be found in any pond...
Many complaints have been made already in respect to the crowd of news boys who infest the steps and transept of Memorial at dinner time. There are many remedies for this troublesome custom. The simplest one is to have a stand or desk placed near the door and have all the evening papers sold there, and there only, by a couple of boys, under the control of some reliable news dealer. The management of the Hall promises to keep the transept clear of boys, if the students will help by buying their papers at the stand, and there only...
...widespread is it? We must not lose sight of that important question. How largely does it infest the college? Are many students large spenders? Must a man of moderate means on coming here be put to shame? Will be find himself a disparaged person, out of accord with the spirit of the place, and unable to attain its characteristic advantages? No systematic evidence on the subject has existed. It is time it did exist, and I have made an attempt to obtain it. To each member of the graduating class I sent a circular asking if he would be willing...
...attention of the janitors of the college building should be called to the match-peddlars who infest the yard...
...make and enforce any rule. The simple request that a certain regulated scale of fees be adopted, and that no boys be employed except when found at certain specified stations, seems to have had the desired result. Not only have the numbers of idle small boys who used to infest every part of the college grounds greatly diminished, but those that have remained seem to have acquired a strangely altered tone of civility. But precisely why the ardor of the "shacker" in the pursuit of the wayward tennis ball should have suffered so sudden a cooling, and his numbers...