Word: grass
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Dane Hall will be torn down within the next few weeks and grass planted on the spot where it now stands, according to the decision of the University Corporation at their last meeting. Whether any building will be erected on the site of Dane Hall next year has not yet been decided. The work of dismantling the building will probably begin in two weeks, and will be completed, if possible, before Commencement...
According to a cablegram received by relatives yesterday, Lieutenant William Hague '04, of Grass Valley, Cal., has died of pneumonia while serving as a member of the American Expeditionary Force in France. Lieutenant Hague embarked for the front only six weeks ago with the 116th Regiment of Engineers. Before entering military service he was an engineer of the North Star Mines in his native state...
...name for all the shapes of treachery that squeak and gibber in the American streets and eke sometimes from American platforms. These are the shadow Huns, the forerunners of a solid flesh and blood reality--or blood and iron, as it prefers to describe itself. All flesh is as grass, and grass is a thing for which the German sword has no use, except it snatch at a few wisps to wipe its blade...
...fair. The work of drill, squads-right and platoons-left-front-into-line-double-time-march has taken second place to the more exacting sport of rushing imaginary trenches under an imaginary "hail of death" (as the war correspondents always describe it). The cinder-heaps are hills, the grass is forests, the fence is a wall of China, and the whole land is "terrain." A man may be a squad, a squad a company, and a company a regiment. In such Lilliputian measure do we play at war, seeing how armies move and battles...
...attended nine o'clock classes thrice a week. He was a demi-god who managed to get his breakfast beforehand. Most men never knew that the dawn bestirs itself more than three hours before noon. Only botanists and late wassalers had witnessed the phenomenon of dew upon the grass...