Word: grass
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WHEREAS: 16 men from Joe Galatte & Sons Landscaping Firm commenced planting 1,000 pounds of grass seed on the main Quadrangle April 28--Buildings and Grounds...
WHEREAS: Continued growth of this young grass is assured only if it is not stepped on, at all, between now and July 1st--Department of Botany...
...THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED: That young grass, like ideas, be allowed to grow freely, and without oppression, on the campus of the University of Chicago. (Signed) George Wells Beadle, President...
Harvard's approach to the grass problem has always been to put Buildings and Grounds crews at work stringing up wire fences around the green patches in the Yard, in the hope that students, like so many cows, would avoid the barriers. Harvard students, fortunately, are more imaginative than cows, and if their elders in the Administration were as original as President Beadle, the growth of Harvard grass might now be assured...
...worth a glance: he had won only one race and $3,380. Last week-four years, 28 victories and $1,411,817 later-Kelso paraded to the post at Aqueduct, the 1-4 favorite to win the H-mi. Woodward Stakes. At six, when most thoroughbreds are munching blue grass in retirement, the great-grandson of Man o' War was still running for his dinner, looking for his seventh stakes victory...