Word: shovelfuls
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Many a junior recalls with pride the alacrity with which be, then a mere freshman, stepped forward and lent his and to the good work of relieving Holmes Field of its unwelcome coverlet. Many a junior, too, will remember the sudden increase in alacrity with which he surrendered his shovel to some new comer and silently became absent from the cold field after a mauvaise quarts' hear of shivering labor. Well, the field was shoveled, despite the alarming number of desertions, and the men to whose efforts this great work was due, watched the subsequent game with Yale with feelings...
...call up these records of the patriotism of '86 from the mouldy archives of the past to set them before the eyes of '88, for it may snow again, and someone must shovel the field if it does, hence the point to be made is that "what freshman has done once, freshman can do again...
Sawdust should be put upon the steps of Memorial when they are covered with ice indestructible by pick or shovel...
...barrels, well stuffed with cannon crackers, cast a lurid glare over the spectators. Proctors rushed to the scene. The everready Cambridge fire department, represented by an aged man with a leaky bucket of water, promptly appeared and attempted to quench the conflagration. Repeated efforts, aided by a snow-shovel, at last prevailed, and only the charred remains of six once flourishing and prosperous barrels remained to mark the path of the fire-fiend. Late in the night the drowsy slumberer was awakened by the explosion of a belated cracker smouldering in the coals, and uttering its expiring gasp long after...
...shovel brigade began work on the snow yesterday...