Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...alumni and undergraduates, and resolutions drawn up pledging to the team the loyal support and confidence of the student body. The cheering at the Brown game this afternoon was probably the best ever heard on Franklin field. Pensylvania's playing showed a decided improvement, though there still remains a vast amount to be accomplished before the big games later in the season. Henceforth Woodruff will resume his place at guard and Morice will play at right halfback...
...revival of "The Chimes of Normandy" as the attraction at the Castle Square Theatre the coming week is sure to give satisfaction to the vast public that has come to look upon the productions at this house as a regular source of enjoyment. The opera has maintained its popularity with American audiences for nearly twenty years, its original production in this country following closely upon its introduction to Paris at the Follies Dramatique in June...
...word which best expresses the difference between Harvard of today and Harvard in the sixties is simplicity. College men then were more simple in every way than they are now. In the sixties there were rich men in college, but the poor men were in such a vast majority that they set the fashion. They built their own fires and drew their own water, with frequent explosives of dissatisfaction. Still they had just as good a time. The sums today spent on athletics would have seemed perfectly fabulons to men in the sixties. The whole sum spent on athletics then...
...time of the discovery of America gold stood to silver at the ratio of 1 to 11. But as the mining industry of New Mexico and Peru assumed importance, there was a vast preponderance of silver among the metallic supplies. Not till after 1660 did the proportion of silver to gold by weight fall below 40 to 1. The reason why so great an increase of silver did not diminish its value in terms of gold was because silver was a metal which the world greatly needed. It was in an overwhelming degree the world's money. The expansion...
INTRODUCTION.I. The proposed University Club is designed to furnish the facilities of a city club to a large proportion of students and help to satisfy the social instincts of the vast number of men who are of necessity excluded from the smaller clubs, and it is moreover hoped that it will strengthen college spirit...