Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...moral courage in the deeper affairs of life. An individual who comes here full of it, finds himself in a non-conducting medium. His vibrations die away like the sound of a bell in an air pump. I have heard the older men who succeeded in mitigating the uproar of the freshmen after the late boat races sneered at as officious. If there were 700 or 800 like them in college we should not hear much about officiousness. The majority now have matters absolutely in their own hands, it they will say their soul's their own. It will...
During a full in the wild shouting and uproar which accompanied the celebration of Columbia's victory in New York on Saturday, some one broke out with the query, "Who's out on a strike?" In answer, a thundering chorus cried "Harvard." The Columbia men forgot that Nichols struck out 7 men, while Ayrault succeeded instriking out only five...
...Providence police have made a raid on rooms in Brown University in search of stolen signs; the college is in a wild state of uproar...
...three and a half mile flag, which Harvard passed in 23m. 6s., the Cambridge boat had a lead of eighteen clear lengths. The whistles of the steamers anchored at the finish now began to add their mite to the general uproar, and soon afterwards the saluting guns from the yachts announced Harvard's grand victory. Harvard came over the line in 25m. 15 1-2s., twenty lengths in advance of Yale, who followed...
...winning of the Mott Haven cup on the same eventful day. But, even on this great occasion, the college exulted without firecrackers and horns; and, furthermore, this was the only celebration of the year. Now, however, a class victory is sufficient to turn the college into an uproar, and often the boom of the firecracker is heard in the yard merely when some individual is festive on his own account. And yet this noisy sort of hilarity is forbidden by the regulations. The connection between these forbidden demonstrations and the Athletic committee, if there is one, (we merely offer...