Word: onslaughts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...which has been assigned for many other slight idiosyncrasies of our famous university. It is the cause of the signal failure of the library to enlighten our minds after sunset; the cause which has occasioned those ever recurring topics of conversation, the pumps, the state of the yard, the onslaught of barbaric muckerism and their like. It is simply the lack of means coupled with the accessory idea of lack of instructors. The English department has attempted by a new system of reckoning to bridge the difficulty. It is now determined that those juniors who have elected composition courses instead...
...sophomoric point of view fills his ardent soul with envy and he calls aloud that his deeds may be set forth in undying print for the benefit of posterity and humanity in general and the edification of himself in particular. How the fence went down before the mighty onslaught of the '88 warriors, how the sophomore braves Lacked sand to begin the fight after the time-honored custom, how many of the latter were bareheaded on their return to the classic shades and finally how, in a fit of kindness, the thoughtful freshmen covered the head of our illustrious founder...
...silver, the people are as anxious as if the cage had broken and the animals had been turned loose upon the country. To complete the simile the secretary of the treasury must be considered as the keeper of these wild beasts, vainly endeavoring to restrain them from their fierce onslaught upon the defenceless people...
...number of three may be withdrawn from the other side, but no more, and accordingly the six New Yorkers were obliged to face nine wearers of the crimson. This superiority in numbers, it is possible, decided the game in Harvard's favor, for after the first desperate onslaught of New York the ball seldom threatened their opponents' goal. The six made it lively however at all times, and through their very paucity in numbers were able to show their fine running and dodging...
...pugnaciousness, that he would fain let the matter rest, but for the honor the president of the Christian Brethren did him in answering his remarks in person, and under his own signature. That this gentleman thought it necessary to come to the front, in spite of the dauntless onslaught of "V. I. Z.," in the Echo, shows the true value of "V. I. Z.'s" criticism. Had it been worth any thing at all, Mr. Maude would not have gone to the trouble of putting pen to paper. I am, therefore, obliged to him for relieving me kindly from replying...