Word: mammoth
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...mammoth minstrel entertainment takes place Friday evening. The sale of reserved seats has been unprecedented by any college entertainment. From all accounts the evening's fun will be great. It is the first and probably the last performance of the kind in the history of the college...
...last to be favored with a minstrel show, the only genuine "Mammoth Minstrels." The arrangements are being made and the fair will take place the evening of March 8th. The funds accruing will be put into the treasury of the "Town Tennis Association." We have abundant talent for the undertaking and a thorough-going success is predicted...
...School, Memorial Hall, the beautiful dining place of the students, where, alas, it is said, the cookery is much inferior to the surroundings, and lastly the Agassiz Museum, where we saw a most interesting accumulation of zoological and ornithological remains, intensely diverting if one understands them, only the mammoth, a favorite of a previous visit was not forthcoming, and we were gravely informed that it had probably been cooked up into Memorial Hall soup, while the immense fossil bird, we were told, had been served there on toast a few days before, as Kansas Prarie Chicken. Let all due allowance...
...birds that came for crumbs, and the snowberry bushes outside waving too and fro in the storm, or budding peacefully in the warm sunlight. Then how often in childish fits of anger or fretfulness, have I rushed to it, and buried my face in the cushion, and watered the mammoth flowers with my tears...
...pent-up enthusiasm of the Republicans now found vent in a mammoth torchlight demonstration. In the evening the column was formed in the upper entry of the main dormitory, and shortly afterwards the line of march was taken up through the principal corridors of the building. Each young lady was provided with a candle, and a-well, no, not a "black bottle," but a bottle of salts, let us say. The procession was loudly cheered at various points on the route, and it was thought that the affair was to pass off without a jar, when suddenly, as the chief...