Word: allay
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...situation of the building has been criticised by some as being dangerously near the baseball diamond. The fact that it is 450 feet from the home plate is enough to allay such fears. Subsequently it will be surrounded by paths and trees and will look very attractive. In fact the whole situation of Soldiers Field will be improved, as the Park Commission have definitely decided to build a driveway along the shore line and the city of Boston has taken 20 feet for the widening of North Harvard street, which will be begun next summer...
Professor de Sumichrast gave an informal talk last evening at the Hasty Pudding Club. His subject was athletics. In connection with football he called attention to the severe opposition now existing generally to football. This he said was so strong that unless something was done to allay it football would have to succumb to some other line of sport. The opposition is mainly on two grounds; first, because of the roughness; and secondly, because of the publicity. The roughness, he said, never could be eliminated merely by the appointment of more officials. There must and would be cultivated in future...
Prof. Bartlett has sent us the following letter on the recent and present cases of sickness in College. This letter should allay whatever fear there may be of any serious trouble...
...place in the opinion of theologians, scholars, and historians, not only in regard to the attitude of the Catholic Church, but also in regard to natural and revealed religion and the ordination of ministers; and the opportunity may well be taken in delivering this third lecture to soothe and allay the animosities and bitterness of the past, and deal with these questions in a broad, scholarly, and magnanimous spirit...