Word: throngs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...memory of our nation's poet and Cambridge's greatest citizen would make this a befitting occasion for the expression of a universal grief, that should be attended by an impressive solemnity. But all was dissatisfaction. The arrangements were very poor, and little provision was made for the vast throng that naturally attended such an affair. The galleries were at once filled to overflowing and great numbers of people choked up the entrances and aisles. The seating capacities were imperfect and arbitrary distinctions made by the officious ushers, who, in many cases, showed much partiality. During the services, a great...
...original ink. Demosthenes is said to have committed suicide by taking poison which he carried in the tip of his pen in readiness for an emergency. We hardly dare to suggest the superior facilities which a stylographic pen offers for such a purpose lest the blood of a throng of imitators may be on our own head...
...lies hidden away in his slight form. What causes these demonstrations? That is a question which has baffled the strongest light of modern research, and the problem is still wrapped in mystery. Begun in barbaric ages, when those who studied were supposed to be so exalted over the ignorant throng of townspeople as to be moving in a region of irresponsibility, these customs of college lawlessness have hitherto resisted even the march of the nineteenth century civilization. The tenacity with which they resist all attempts at eradication would almost seem to show that they are grounded in nature...
Finally, they appear at the lectures in a course of study, implicitly as members of the University, for the announcement reads: "The lectures are open to all members of the University." And not only this, but they appear in such a throng that the recitation room, in which there are opportunities for taking notes, is insufficient in size; and a larger room, where such conveniences are not as good, badly ventilated and just vacated by the members of another elective, is taken instead...
Conditions throng...