Word: flocking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...entire week and entailed a complete suspension of studies for that period, as they do at some colleges, men would not have to be "urged" to attend. The consequent revolution in the usual course of life, the abnormal excitement, would carry men off their feet, and they would flock to the dance. But the University system is saner,--also less expensive. And the term "Junior prom" still has a wondrous thrilling appeal to the other...
...written and produced by students of it, they are much better dramatic investments than the conventional two-dollar play, of the modern box-office school. If they had lurid play bills to herald their coming; and a record of 300 nights on Broadway behind them, the theatre sheep would flock to see them and pronounce them capital...
...only offer a limited number of identical volumes. If the reading assigned were done early, all would be well; but the tendency of the majority is to put the task as far away as possible. Consequently, the day or the night before the examination, a great number of students flock to the Library, and many are disappointed and chagrined when they find it impossible to obtain the desired copy. The only remedy for this condition is to do one's work soon after it is assigned, and if this suggestion is followed higher scholarship and greater satisfaction to all will...
...College to sit by helpless and do nothing to counteract the evil tendency. Hence came the decision to put the entire Freshman class on an equality as to living accommodations, and to see to it that groups from the big preparatory schools and large cities did not flock by themselves...
Even as we try to persuade any doubting Juniors that they should flock to the Yard, the present Seniors occupy themselves with the first of the inter-dormitory smokers--as long and glorious a line, for 1914, we hope, as for 1913 which conceived them...