Word: throng
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...would be the most desirable city for such an institution, and hinges the whole question upon the relative merits of a location in a city and one in a small town. He combats the idea that a university needs quiet and removal from the excitements and activities of a throng by saying "that as this is a practical age, and as the object of education is to fit young men for the duties and responsibilities of practical life, the greatest advantages exist in a large town. "The very atmosphere inspires with the restlessness and activity and practical force which reach...
...Harvard is not only a great centre of polite learning, it is also a powerful factor in the civil life of the nation. Students from all quarters of the country throng its halls. Many of these youth will yet occupy public positions and control the political action of their States. The lessons which they will learn in Cambridge and Boston will never be forgotten. Respect for the dignity of labor, reverence for law, the value of the varied industries and thrifty economics which amass the means that philanthropy so grandly uses are nowhere better exemplified, and the salutary and harmonizing...
...years ago it was not uncommon to hear a senior remark: "Indeed, I never thought of going into the library in my freshman year." Today the toiling freshman not infrequently sighs: "Why are we expected to read half of the books in the library?" From the ceaseless throng that come and go the library may properly be termed the university workshop...
...laying of the corner-stone of the new produce exchange on Broadway, near Beaver street, New York, took place yesterday afternoon with imposing ceremonies, and in the presence of a large throng of people...
...found necessary to postpone the races until this morning." We do not wish to make any prophecies concerning the result of the contest, because things have come to such a pass that if we dared to express our humble opinion our office would be instantly crowded by a throng wildly waving their pocket-books (empty, probably,) and crying out "What'll you bet?" In our list of the crews, it will be noticed that after the name of each one of the girls who row in the crews today, we have put under the "age" unknown. As our reporters could...