Word: rife
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...discussion of the change of Stewards at Memorial, in the President's Report, the following sentence occurs: "Complaints about the food and service had been rife among the students of the Association for several months; but the Directors had not brought these complaints to the notice of the Steward, or taken any measures to remove the just causes of complaint, if any there were, or to demonstrate their unreasonableness." On this point there seems to be some misapprehension. The Directors made complaints to the Steward, and he, to demonstrate the unreasonableness of these complaints, repeatedly took the Board through...
DURING the somewhat heated discussions of college polities which were rife at the time of the Senior Class elections, it was frequently urged that certain measures were objectionable because they were not democratic. This appeared to be considered by many as a final argument. The moment that any plan was suspected of a character not thoroughly popular, that plan was ipso facto condemned. Good or bad, it was at once abandoned by the majority...
...would for any length of time hold the respect of his clients. As a worthy example of this style of lawyer reference was made to Sumner, "who was true to his own convictions, unawed by popular clamor, or undismayed by private ill-will. If corruption was rife around him, it never stained his garments. If others were in the market, there was no price which could purchase him." Such was his greatest and an all-sufficient distinction...
...gentle nature, with all goodness rife...