Word: storming
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...storm which we predicted has broken forth over the announced changes in the admission requirements. One newspaper warns the exultant anti-classicists that Harvard, instead of setting the lead, may be held up as an example of what a college should not be. Another newspaper, with sinister mysteriousness, gives out the hint that Harvard has thrown overboard, along with prescribed Greek, more than she suspects. Still another talks gloomily about the "combined forces of moneyed considerations and a false liberalism" "crumbling the walls of scholastic learning," and indicates quite (?) that Harvard "has sold its (?) right for a mess of pottage...
Even if the announcement shall only prove premature, the position of the faculty is made an unpleasant one. It is much less easy to come to a decision in the face of a storm of hostile criticism; and the rumor that the fate of prescribed classics hangs in the balance at Harvard, is likely to raise such a storm. The wish to be first in collecting a piece of news is a legitimate desire for a newspaper reporter. He abuses the power, however, which his position gives him when he prints his news on insufficient information in a great city...
...flow of spirits within proper bounds. One anxious mother sent the family dog with her son for protection. One of the freshmen picked up sufficient courage to accompany a young lady to the social, but when it came time to go home he excused himself on account of the storm. -[Chronicle...
During the storm yesterday afternoon long blue flames were seen to stream up from the lightning rods on University, showing that the atmosphere was in a highly electrified condition...
TENNIS IN MAINE.-The Bowdoin Orient says: "We noticed a game played recently in a snow storm, when the participants wore mittens, and had to jump about to keep warm, in addition to the exertion required in playing...