Word: mob
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...every game a detail of Cambridge "constabulary" is hired to keep the non-paying spectators from encroaching upon the field. This they successfully accomplish during the progress of the game, and it would be in their power, by a judicious use of the cane, to keep back the howling mob until players and spectators had left the field. We venture to suggest that the management of the nine try this experiment, since it involves no additional expense...
Again, let us look at foot-ball, which in the days of "Tom Brown," was played by fifty or more men, without any more regard for science than any ordinary mob displays; no doubt the game was exciting; no doubt, fine plays were made; but it was still painfully crude and undeveloped. Let us look at it now;-twenty-two men, carefully trained and in the highest possession of all their powers, contest the game with all the confidence and skill that only careful instruction inspires. There they depended on numbers and strent to win the game; here, there...
...would suggest that the proper authorities do something to check the outrageous crying and shouting of the mob of small boys which lines the edges of Jarvis whenever a game is in progress. This nuisance was particularily noticeable on Saturday last, and several complaints have been made concerning it. If the policemen would exercise themselves a little more to keep order, it would certainly make a marvelous change, and might even prove ab effectual check to any repetition of this time-honored offense...
...prejudiced. The following description of the rush from an impartial outsider, the New York Times, sets the matter in a better light. As a whole it cannot be said, however, that the affair reflects credit on either party. The students apparently put themselves in the position of an ungentlemanly mob, and as such deserved the correction they obtained. If for nothing less than a description of a curious-relic of custom nearly extinct at all other colleges, the following account is of interest...
...notorious Barber brothers were forcibly taken from the jail at Waverly, Iowa, Friday night, by a mob from Fayette and hanged. The leader of the mob has been arrested...