Word: rife
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...affairs of general management, it would be a delicate matter for our faculty to express their opinion of our athletics. It can be done, however, and that in a spirit of not even seeming interference. Something must certainly be done. A Harvard spirit stronger then ever before is now rife among graduates and undergraduates, and it can hardly be that this has failed to reach the faculty. If it has reached them it is their duty to speak. They will be gladly heard; and, at the same time that they help to heal the breach between themselves and students which...
...remarks made by several professors that the resolutions of the Board of Overseers have been adopted by the faculty with some modification and will go into effect about April 1st. The faculty doubtless have good reason for their secrecy, but the inevitable result is that many reports are now rife in the college, of which some may be true but most are probably false. Much dissatisfaction is expressed because of the delay. The matter is of such vital interest to all undergraduates that their impatience is justifiable. Nevertheless we would urge the necessity of caution in criticizing the action...
...today of those men now at Harvard who have previously attended any other college. The purpose in view is an important matter, and we would urge all such men to be present. In the light of the many misunderstandings of the recent resolutions of the Board of Overseers, now rife in the college world, any action to be effectual must be prompt and unanimous. There are one hundred and ten men now in the academic department who have come here from other colleges both for the greater personal freedom and the superior advantages for study which the Harvard system permits...
Several new literary societies have been organized among both undergraduates and specials, some of which will devote themselves to the discussions of purely literary subjects, and others to questions of a political nature. There is rife also speculation as to the chances of the various speakers in the preliminary junior orator contests which take place in both halls, shortly. Four are chosen from each hall who will compete on public contest at commencement for the prizes offered...
...been called recently to the frequency with which the posters announcing the different base-ball games disappear from the college yard. This was especially noticeable with regard to the Harvard-Yale freshman game, but the practice of "ragging" 'varsity signs among the students at large is just as rife. The rapidity with which they disappear from the bulletin boards in University and in Memorial is truly amazing. The different athletic teams rely principally upon the posters for the publication of their games, and undergraduates ought to remember that a sign which goes no one knows where in five minutes...