Word: packed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard music-lovers will come into their own tonight when the long awaited performance of "L'Amore Dei Tre Re" by the Chicago Civic Opera Company will be presented at special "Harvard Night". The audience which is expected to pack the Boston Opera House, will be composed largely of University undergraduates...
...only our pack horses, and the rain, which was with us all but seven days. This made it very difficult for us as we had to preserve all our specimens and photographic plates from the moisture. At one time we were in a very dangerous position because half of our pack horses gave out under the weight of our specimens, but we managed to struggle on to a little village where the natives saved...
Install better lighting facilities and comfortable chairs, attend to the acoustic problem if necessary, pack "Mem" to the doors the night before the Yale game, give a "long Harvard", and watch the scowls of those worthies turn into smiles! Why not smash another tradition while the craze is on warm up old "Mem"? Philip W. Rice...
...condition in Widener, however, is almost ideal in comparison to that of the overcrowded lecture rooms in Harvard and Sever. These halls were not built originally for the multitudes that now pack into them every hour. As winter comes and doors and windows are never absent mindedly left open, the change is entirely for the worse. Before vast sums are spent for new buildings, a little might very well be expended to remedy the defects of the old. New chairs and new desks are needed; above all new ventilating apparatus...
There was some excitement. Friends of the riders would come, bringing bands, flags, popcorn, whiskey, noise. Now and again an ambitious rider, chafing at the long grind, would flash forth and seek to lap the field with a burst of speed. The pack would leap out in pursuit, catch him, or he it, from the rear, then settle down again. Every few hours came compulsory sprints, for points. And bored spectators would sometimes get the announcer's ear, offer $20, $100, to the winner of a special sprint. Megaphoned to, the riders would tense, dart away, tear over the line...