Word: raging
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Association were very few previous to 1879, and these have been destroyed, as if the despairing supporters of the game felt that they had attempted too much in trying to introduce a new sport into a college where boating was at its height, where base-ball was all the rage, and where tennis and rifle clubs were rising into prominence. Lacrosse, though of slow, has still been of sure growth. We may imagine the first few forlorn players creeping out to some retired part of Holmes field to practise their strange sport. In the fall of 1879, however, the prospects...
...librarian. After losing a number of names in this way, and after having left his own autograph on as many pages, the librarian adopted the ingenious method of tearing out the page on which an illustrious visitor had left his marks, and of restoring the leaves after the rage for autographs had departed from the breasts of the kleptomaniacs. Thus we find the Duke Alexis and a few of his suite occupy a lonely position at the top of a page. The democratic Dom Pedro is relegated to another lonely leaf. These are some of the woes "that troop with...
...Then for a trifle more one can obtain the use of a locker. The boats are all in first-class order, there being singles, doubles, and some larger ones, which can be used by a club, if necessary. Two years ago, these boats were all in demand, and the rage was for rowing. We hope that this spring may bring a repetition of it, and that the funds of the U. B. C. may thus become enlarged...
...present rage for photographing everything and every body about college, it may be suggested that a photographic group of the winners in the athletic events at the winter meetings would prove interesting to a large number of men, to whom it would be an acceptable memento of this feature of college life. We find the meeting-room hung with trophies, and photographs of noted athletes, all of which represent out-door events, and victories on land and water. Our winter meetings in the gymnasium are popular and profitable, and often represent a deal of athletic practice and training...
...course I was scared perfectly indigo, the more so as he poured forth a torrent of unintelligible sounds, among which I barely distinguished the familiar syllables of Lardy and Linda. When I did recognize these, however, I leave the reader to imagine what feelings I experienced. All that impotent rage and hate mingled with love, all that blighted hope and the consciousness of personal injury combined with everlasting affection, could put into the heart of mortal man was depicted in my countenance. I fell at the feet of the brutal wild man, and implored him to restore...