Word: throng
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...those loyal alumni returning to their school. Unlike those of a preparatory school, however, the graduates of Harvard number tens of thousands, and the undergraduate will find here and there among the reuniting ranks only an occasional friend, acquaintance, or relative. Nevertheless he regards the great throng very humbly and with a personal affection and wishes them all the happiest of reunions and many happy returns. To all the graduates he offers the most cordial welcome and especially to those holding their formal reunions--the classes...
...time for the meet has now been definitely settled for 7 o'clock, which, it is believed, will be the best hour for the majority of the throng which will undoubtedly wish to witness the performance. The Stadium will be thrown open to the public in the early afternoon and the gates will be shut only when a capacity number has been seated...
Professor Tetsuzo Okada, one of the most distinguished professors of Japan and an instructor at the Military Staff College in Tokyo, yesterday paid an informal visit to the University on his brief tour of the United States. He was escorted by a throng of Japanese students, his former pupils, all eager to show him about the University, which he viewed for the first time...
...which the Harvard student of today merely shrugs his shoulder. They have been used too long and too often. Yet there are excellent reasons for saying that such opinions are quite illfounded and false When a truly worth-while preacher appears, the Chapel can not contain the crowds that throng to hear him. An average attendance of almost 300 men at an optional course on religion, held at a none too convenient time in a stuffy hall, is a record of which the colleges who are reported to be praying for "Godless Harvard" might well be proud...
...sang a duet from the same opera. Both were nervous at first, lacking the stimulant of a physical audience ; they warmed to their work, their voices were perfectly reproduced, even to the finest nuances of shading. Between numbers, the announcer's metallic voice jargoned, reminded the throng of ghostly listeners that the two artists made records for the Victor Co., that these records were on sale. Before Mr. McCormack sang his crowning ballad, Mother Machres, telegrams began to arrive from far states congratulating the singers. At the concert's end, the selected notables in the reception room rose...