Word: vast
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...arrangement of tables makes reading in the Library and consulting the vast number of "reserved books" more practicable. We understand that ground will be broken for the addition to Gore Hall early in the coming spring...
...body of men, varying in numbers between one hundred and fifty and two hundred, enter college together. For the most part they are strangers to each other, and the vast differences in antecedents, in habits, in tastes, and in character which cannot but be found among them, prevent them from forming one great circle of friends. They cannot but separate into cliques, more or less distinct; and they cannot in four years become so completely familiar with the character of every classmate that they can unhesitatingly declare that a certain man is best fitted to hold a certain office...
...Memorial fare. I am convinced that my trouble is not subjective, that I do not find eating a trouble because I am not well, because I find no such difficulty when I am driven to the Holly Tree for a steak to support life. Every one knows what a vast difference there is between the taste of beef at home and at Memorial, and though it would be unreasonable to expect all the comforts of home, we ought at least to have the advantages of a first-class restaurant...
UNDER the suggestive heading of W. P. B., the Oxford and Cambridge Journal discusses its exchanges. The articles published in the Crimson on base-ball seem to afford a vast field of speculation; witness the following...
...heart, and it may be almost breaking, yet a kind word would ruin her. She does her best, and has her faults; but we are like her in the latter, and often behind her in the former. She is one of a queer element in the city's vast population, and her life passes as a tedious dream; but after the dream she sleeps and wakes...