Word: grass
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Specimens of field artillery material have been on exhibition on the grass plot south of University Hall since August 1, and will remain there indefinitely. The present exhibit includes a battery commanders' periscope, and telescope, a range finder, aiming circle, ordnance compass, Browning machine gun and automatic rifle, projectiles of various sizes, and a British 75 mm. field piece. The exhibition is being changed constantly so as to include other types of material...
...tomorrow evening at 6 o'clock. No canvas will be put u until it has been paid for. It should be understood that those holding spreads must pay for the cost of moving benches in case of rain and also must be responsible in case of injury to the grass by their caterers. No teams or automobiles will be allowed in the Yard after noon, and no men will be allowed to carry in dishes, etc. After 2 P. M. those giving spreads must furnish Yard tickets for their caterers and assistants...
...University tennis team was victorious over Pennsylvania by a 5 to 4 score at the Merion Cricket Club, Philadelphia, Saturday afternoon. The closeness of the score was in part due to the fact that the University players were handicapped by the unaccustomed slippery grass courts. D. P. Robinson '20, of the Second team, took the place of C. H. Hyams '21 for this match. The summary is as follows...
...Yard furnish it. The superannuated gentry who appear from nowhere each spring and with withered hands minister to sadly bedraggled borders, are with us once again. Not content with knocking off our hats as we pass, by the vigorous sweeps of their rake handles or with flinging grass seed inadvertently upon our newest outing garments, these ancient toilers have this year, conceived the notion of erecting formidable wire entanglements about arbitrary to man's lands, and thus sheltered they enjoy ham sandwich "spreads" during the noon hour in perfect travesty of Class...
...river the first day, and across the second, and on into the forests and fields and thicket-covered hillsides where he had left his rear-guard detachments, bristling with machine guns, to cover his withdrawal. So on we went all that day, through wheat and grass, and potato fields, through tangled thickets and stately groves and along roads and trails--all under a beautiful clear blue cloudless sky, through which the sun sailed merrily on, and through which, also, a flock of Boche airplanes soared and wheeled, directing the batteries on our poor tired devils, dropping bombs and spitting machine...