Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...time when some forty-seven thousand people are assembled together for the purpose of enjoyment, and when train upon train brings eager throngs from all over the East, it is fitting to consider for a brief moment the calamitous suffering now being endured all over Europe. Those happy thousands who today will pack the Stadium, with thoughts centered solely on the great football battle staged before them, may well afford to think also of the greater, sterner battles being fought elsewhere, where the yard-lines are trenches, and where even victory brings untold suffering...
...Haven, Conn., Nov. 18. -- Three thousand undergraduates marched to the station at New Haven this afternoon to see the Yale Football team off for Auburndale. The squad was cheered and serenaded with football songs. Forty-six men, including the Yale cross-country team left in two special cars...
...have been famous on the gridiron, engaged in keen competition for his services, he may be pardoned for developing an exalted idea of his importance. When a coach of a small college team is quoted as bragging that the eleven cost him so many thousand dollars, the previous season, what is the inference? A definite, combined effort to end this situation on the part of seats of learning which value their own self-respect and bear at the same time some regard for the mental and moral status of boys whom they receive as students, would be attended by immediate...
...this academic year is in itself unique. The journal of University life and thought has become on this occasion a record of the death and self-devotion of Cambridge men. It is a record of which any University might be proud. At present it is estimated that ten thousand, two hundred and fifty Cambridge men have come forward to serve their country. Already nearly one in seven is numbered among the killed, the wounded, or the prisoners. The most brilliant gifts intellectual, administrative and physical, have been offered freely and without complaint upon the altar of our country. The list...
...orchestra under Dr. Muck had a great success at the Panama-Pacific International Exhibition in San Francisco last spring. Over forty-five thousand persons listened to thirteen symphony concerts in as many days...