Word: rife
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...house. These productions were often very coarse, for it was an understood thing that the authors of them were never to be molested by those whom they abused. Gladstone in his Fifth Form poem eschewed all personalities, but conveyed his opinion with great vigor on some of the abuses rife in the school, and in particular on cruelties that used to be practiced towards pigs at the Eton Fair that was held every Ash Wednesday. A barbarous usage had arisen for boys to hustle the drovers and then cut off the tails of the pigs. Gladstone gave great offense...
Ever since the opening of college, and even before, criticism has been rife in regard to Harvard's so-called revolution in athletics. Rumors of all kinds have from time to time been put in circulation, and the coolness with which the imaginative writer has relegated Harvard to an inferior position in the field of sport, has a certain freshness which deserves better material. Without inquiry into the motives or desires of the faculty, the writers have described it as an unwarranted war upon "professionalism," a fatal blow to college athletics, and several other equally emphatic statements, which...
...programme good, and the drinking part entirely satisfactory. The poem was delivered by Mr. J. F. Jenkins, Jr., and the oration by Mr. J. H. Ward, Jr. The convivium afterwards was held in the American Institute Fair building, where hat kicking, crack walking and busy times generally were rife until the "wee sma' hours...
Among the many rumors that are rife, there is one that next year chapel exercises are to be held in the evening, instead of in the morning, as at present. The change seems to us a most desirable one, especially if the time assigned were immediately before or after dinner. If this were done, attendance at chapel would be no longer regarded as a bugbear; on the contrary, it would become a real pleasure...
...Yale Record brought us several news items that are so original and startling that we reprint them herewith for the benefit of our readers. From its columns we learn that "Inasmuch as the editors of the HERALD are very careful to preserve a strict incognito, there is a suspicion rife about Cambridge that it may not be a college enterprise, but an outside speculation." We also learn from its columns that the HERALD is printed at the office of a city daily. Taken as a whole, judging from its outside appearance, the last number of the Record is an unusually...