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Those which remain in our system are subject to a tidal action so intense that they are broken up and converted into meteors. This is the cause of the "August meteors...
...McCosh school raise their voices in tones of pious horror, and a great journal denounces Cambridge as a nest of corruption, scepticism and philosophic indifference, the college itself is waxing in greatness year by year. Borne by the impulse of her own audacity, Harvard is on a tidal wave of success. From the present chaos of change there bids fair to be evolved something that America does not possess - a great university. - Cincinnati Telegram...
...annual tidal wave of photographic literature now begins to inundate our column. It is as yet rather more of a ripple than a real, large wave, but as a rolling stone gathers no moss - no, not that exactly, rather as a rolling snow ball becomes the more large and elegant by the very fact of its on ward progress, so in the course of time will this mass of photographic correspondence enlarge in magnitude from the insignificant proportions of a three-line notice to the full-grown glory of a half column announcement. This photographic matter...
...reached of the scene that invariably follows the close of a game on either Jarvis or Holmes. No sooner is the last man put out, or the winning run scored than the cream of Cambridge muckerdom rises, and sweeps over the barriers with the resistless power of a tidal wave, overwhelming players and spectators alike in the mad rush. Such is the state of affairs. There is a remedy. At every game a detail of Cambridge "constabulary" is hired to keep the non-paying spectators from encroaching upon the field. This they successfully accomplish during the progress of the game...
...WEATHER.WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 8, 1. A.M. For New England, cold day for the Republicans, barometer away down, "tidal wave" from all over the country...