Word: grass
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Even the verdant green of the terra firma and the bingle of the bat on the ball are sometimes treacherous signs of the love-making season, but who can question the authority of the appearance of the hay lids? The weather man has promised a glorious day for the grass helmets on Saturday, and -- besides--the goals are hungry for that old brown derby...
...like a sidewalk and curb. On these are to be built wood benches with a back, and a foot rest to raise the feet from the concrete. The outside of the embankment is to be made on a slope of one on two, covered with loam and seeded to grass. The entrance under the seats to the field itself is to be through a wide reinforced concrete tunnel made on a slope from the ground outside the embankment to the field; the entrance to the seats is to be made with smaller reinforced concrete tunnels arranged around the stands...
...Cutting '12 and E. H. Whitney '14 will play the finals of the interclass tennis tournament on the grass courts at Longwood this morning at 10.15 o'clock. Whitney in a hard five-set match defeated W. M. Washburn, the Freshman champion, a few weeks ago, while Cutting defeated A. J. Lowrey, the champion of the Junior class, in the semi-finals. The match this morning will decide the college championship...
...Oxford only the Dons, or college officers, are permitted to walk on the grass. At Harvard the "Dons" appear to be the only persons to pursue the paths. Everyone else, led on by that delightful abandon which accompanies the approach of the merry Maytime, not only ambles on the grassy edges of the lawn, but, on the way to Memorial Hall, ventures occasionally into pastures new. The result in the latter case is a fairly obvious suggestion that the Superintendent of Grounds and Buildings establish a new and convenient path. This suggestion will, doubtless, be acted upon...
...hurdles will be run on the grass, and the flights will be stationary, the Americans having yielded to this demand. Also Oxford and Cambridge have announced their willingness to allow freshmen at the American colleges to compete, and this makes a place on the team for Stewart, the Yale Freshman who did the quarter in 50 flat in the dual meet between the Harvard and Yale freshman teams...