Word: grass
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...chief delight of the students was in outwitting the proctors, and had those gentlemen shown a more reasonable spirit, the celebration would have done no harm and would have been over at an early hour. The fire on the grass by the library, which did so much injury, would not have been put there, except that its promoters were less likely to be caught in such a place. A bonfire is no crime, if it does no injury, and no one would attempt injury, unless detection means punishment...
...from us to attempt to discourage any festivities after a wellearned victory over a formidable rival. Indeed, we heartily indorse enthusiasm in such matters, but it seems unfortunate that any men should have built a bon-fire upon the grass in the yard. There are many places about the grounds where a fire can do no harm. Why then should not men have a trifle more pride about appearances? The building of a fire upon the lawns kills all the grass immediately underneath it and scorches much more for many yards around, so that the evil effects can be seen...
...this is the time of the year when the greatest care has to be taken with the grass, we regret to see that through thoughtlessness or for other causes, so many men are accustomed to walk across the new athletic grounds. The sod is in anything but a flourishing condition, and can ill afford to bear the wear and tear which the continual tramping of men will bring upon it. Especially do these remarks apply to the baseball field which has recently been sodden at the expense of the nine, and which must receive special care...
...this tract was full of hollows and ploughed patches devoted to garden purposes. When it was found that the college grounds would be cramped by the building of the new Jefferson Laboratory, the hollows were filled up and a large hummock leveled, then this new field was planted with grass-seed. The whole is an acre or so in extent and has only a gentle slope toward the southeast. Mr. Eveleth, superintendent of the grounds, said that in June, after the grass had been cut once, the turf would be in a condition for use. This seemed hardly probable...
Girton College is very pleasantly situated near the university town of Cambridge, England. The buildings occupy two sides of a quadrangle, tastefully laid out into grass-plots, flowerbeds and trim walks. These buildings contain fifty-five suites of rooms for students; suites for the mistress and three resident lecturers; eight lecture rooms, a dining hall, a small chapel, and an isolated hospital suite. There is also in another building, which stands by itself, a laboratory and a gymnasium. The college was founded about fifteen years ago, in a private house, with six students in the catalogue...