Word: crowding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Consciousness is always a unit. These two elements cannot be connected. How then, can a variety of elements produce unity of effect?" He proceeded to demonstrate this by the examples of the resultant of the action of many billiard balls upon a single one, and by the way a crowd will rush into one mass as if by unity of consciousness...
Lost evening the complimentary dinner to the foot ball team by the graduates and undergraduates of Harvard was held at the Parker house. Plates were set for about two hundred and fifty, but this was not enough, as several extra seats had to be placed to accommodate the large crowd. It was a few minutes before eight that the dinning room was opened when the men entered and awaited the appearance of the eleven which Mr. C. M. Thayer, '89, ushered in amidst a tremendous greeting by series of cheers. About half-past nine Mr. Dexter, '90, who presided...
...persons applied for admission to the grounds between 12.30 and 2 o'clock and fully 5000 had to be turned away. More persons paid for admission to the two grand stands than could be accommodated with sea sand these had to take their chances with the howling, cheering crowd which surrounded the ropes on all sides. A great many ladies were present, accompanied by their brothers or escorts and they cheered just as loudly as their male companions...
...Springfield on Saturday afternoon Harvard played and lost her last game of the season to Yale by a score of six to nothing. There was a tremendous crowd in attendance, fully twelve thousand people occupying the grand stands and coaches. The Yale supporters predominated, but over a thousand men went down from Cambridge alone, while there was any number of graduates present to cheer for the crimson. It was a magnificently played game throughout by both sides and not until the last few minutes of the play could it be at all definitely decided who were to be the winners...
Special cares for the Harvard-Yale game today will leave New Haven, Boston, Amherst, Williamstown, New York, Buffalo and Albany. Fifty police offices in uniform will be arranged around the field at Springfield to keep the crowd back...