Word: mobbed
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Dates: during 1877-1877
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...admit, however much we may dislike the prevalent cant about dignity, that the old rushes between the Sophomores and the Freshmen added nothing to the pleasure of the spectators, and excited nothing but disgust in the minds of those who turned their eyes from the tree to the howling mob of undergraduates. The Seniors' rush for flowers is not wholly unconnected with sentiment, is not brutal, and, though thoroughly undignified, is amusing. The cheering and class song no one can object to; and, as a last argument for the continuance of these "exercises," they form an agreeable interlude between...
...party of undergraduates, who have not enjoyed the experience of more than six months of college life, occupy conspicuous seats in a Boston theatre and display more hilarity than dignity in their deportment, is the Boston press going to correct their shortcomings by designating them as the "Harvard Mob...