Word: grasse
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard, although much greater last year than ever before, is still not so intense that we can afford to let an entire season pass by without giving any encouragement at all to our runners and walkers; and we can only hope that next year the growth of weeds and grass upon the track will not render it so nearly indistinguishable from the rest of the field that our fall meeting will again have to be given up from lack of resources to clear the stubble away...
...nice opening for a pretty speech; but as I did not think it quite good taste to make a pretty speech upon such short acquaintance, I merely remarked, "No, you don't "(for she certainly did not), and, throwing down my rod and basket, seated myself on the grass at her feet. After a rather painful silence of a few moments, during which she scanned my face with a somewhat naive curiosity, I rushed into the breach in the conversation with, "Are you at Wellesley College?" "Yes, I am," said she. "Guess you're a Harvard boy." I confessed...
Through the grass its path 's beguiling...