Word: overcrowded
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...gymnasium becomes the general resort of those desiring exercise, health or athletic amusement. That boxing, indoor running, jumping, calisthenics and other gymnastic games furnish welcome opportunities for satisfying these desires is evinced by the fact that over five hundred men use it daily. So large a number overcrowd the present gymnasium, with its inadequate arrangement and appliances, but until the University is presented with a new gymnasium or is able to build an addition to the present one, such overcrowding and inadequacy can only be borne with patience...
...them are of much weight. In the first instance, that of the Brooks House, one of the prettiest and most complete corners of the College ground is to be invaded, and even if the new building does not fail to harmonize with the old ones, it seems sure to overcrowd the space. As for Randall Hall, it would probably be much more useful, if placed nearer the square. It is of course, exceedingly difficult to pick out a position which would be satisfactory in every way, but it will be a matter for regret if the present choice...
...Watson may be justified in keeping visitors out of the rowing room because they overcrowd the room and interfere with the coaches, but on this very account authentic information about the crew should be given to the University at large in some other ways. In the absence of such reliable reports various rumors are circulated, and also to a certain extent believed, which certainly do not tend to add to the confidence of the undergraduates in the new system of coaching...
...enough men take an elective to overcrowd it, (that is to say, either to diminish the benefit of the course, or to overwork the instructor), the proper remedy is, either the addition of more electives in that branch, or, in case the instructor has reason to believe that the course is taken on account of its ease, there should then be an increase the next year in the amount of work done in the course, and a clear statement of the additional work should be put in the list of electives...