Word: plethora
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...powerful men, and straining every nerve to put a crew on the water this spring which shall repeat last year's triumphs, and enable them to retain the reputation they won last year during the rest of their college course. Besides the first crew, eighty-seven has such a plethora of candidates that she is enabled to keep an entire second crew in training, in order to fill up any gap which may occur in the first crew. This second crew is slightly changeable in respect to the different positions of the men, as there is more or less changeing...