Word: overflowing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Work has begun on the wooden stands which enclose the open end of the Stadium. The stands are designed to take care of the overflow crowd in the Yale game, and will probably not be ready before then. Their seating capacity is estimated at over...
Those who have been accustomed to juggling coreal and "toast with" during the rush hours in Jimmie's Lunch Room will doubtless welcome the news that "Jimmie" is to open a new establishment in the basement of the Lampoon building to take the overflow from the present shop...
...continually increasing size of the Radio School has made necessary the acquisition of another dormitory as an "overflow" barracks for the students now housed in the Hemenway Gymnasium. Craigie Hall, a private dormitory situated on Mt. Auburn street near Brattle Square, has been taken over by the Radio School and will be put into use as soon as the number of cadets becomes too large for the barracks now used. At present there are about 2,000 men enrolled at the school...
...Delta, so named because, like the Nile, it suffers a yearly spring overflow, where, from his brazen seat, John Harvard frowns down at these roystering children of a frivolous generation, the banquet boards of 1917's hospitality will rest. And in Memorial Hall the ingrained odor of cabbage and beef from ten thousand dinners will be temporarily smothered under the fragrance of rose-water and culled flowers...
...yield a maximum amount of something in return for a minimum amount of nothing. The ideal course of this kind would be one which met once a year at the pleasure of the instructor, and it is certain that such a course, if over discovered, would with its members overflow any building in the University. The search for this ideal course goes on in the same way and in the same spirit as Ponce de Leon and the explorers of old spent their lives seeking the fountain of youth, and so far with exactly similar results...