Word: grand
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Trinity has raised the necessary funds for the erection of a new grand stand...
Between 1815 and 1835 there was a great deepening of interest in the study of history. Darwin's great achievement was the spreading of the historical idea far beyond the limits of humanity. His "Origin of Species" (1859) was not the first exponent of the evolution but only one grand application of it; bringing to a focus tendencies of modern thought...
...very serious accident at the Yale-Princeton game yesterday is an illustration, if one were needed, of the dangers of having seats and grand stands insecurely built. At the Harvard-Yale game at Springfield there came very near being a similar accident, in my opinion. The seats near the centre of the Harvard side, to the north, where I was, got swaying so badly near the end of the game that everybody left the upper rows. It would have taken very little more to bring the whole thing down-I think another touch-down for Harvard would have done...
...hours before the game began a large crowd rushed on to a section of the grand stand composed of portable iron frames covered with boards. The frame work snapped and precipitated a large number, chiefly students of various colleges...
...hard to understand the mental attitude of those students who can sell their fellow-students grand stand tickets for today's game at an advance in price and attempt to maintain their self-respect. Speculating in tickets, taking advantage of the fact that others cannot, or least do not rush to the first sale of tickets, is at best a business to be ashamed of; but carrying it on as a student among students, setting the value of a small gain above a regard for common kindness that should exist between man and man, to say nothing of college mates...