Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There is also the opinion, which many well-meaning people have, that this college is a kind of athletic training school, a grand place for one to learn how to row or play base-ball...
Jarvis Field was the scene of the contest; but old Jarvis had undergone a great transformation since the days of Eliot the First. A soft, closely cropped turf covered the broad field, and on either side were lofty grand stands, equalled in beauty of architecture only by the ancient amphitheatre of Pompey. Everything indicated that Harvard had recovered from that dread disease, impecunia...
...when the two great rival colleges were to contend for the laurel of victory, a great crowd of spectators had gathered on the field. The grand stands were resplendent with beauty of face and of color. Foot-ball was now almost as popular with the fair sex as progressive euchre. The appearance of the contestants was awaited with great eagerness. At last they came, and were greeted by generous applause. But not a college cheer was heard; for such an undignified manifestation of approval in these days of gentle manners was considered an unpardonable breach of etiquette and decorum...
...ever read the grand old epics of the ancients, the incomparable blank verse of Shakespeare, the sweet lyrics of Shelley, Wordsworth, Keats, and a hundred others, and not felt himself elevated and benefitted in mind and soul by so allowing his thoughts to mingle with theirs? But can any one fully, appreciate these productions who has never studied or tried to express himself in verse, any more than a country-bred swain can comprehend the rich harmony of a Thomas concert? WE say not, and to remedy this ignorance of rhyme and this derogative opinion of it, we would propose...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - I see in one of your columns that a complaint is made on account of lack of energy in carrying out the plans of the proposed grand stand. I wish to state that two mass meetings were called, before the last of which a notice was put in the CRIMSON, that unless there was a fair-sized meeting, the committee would take it for granted that the students did not care to have anything further done in regard to the grand stand. At the last meeting there were hardly twenty men present and as had been stated...