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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Many flowers, such as eel grass and the water-lilies are water-fertilized. The staminate and pastilate flowers are born near the root of the plant under water, the latter rise on long stems to the surface, and the former breaking off, rise and fertilize them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prof. Trelease's Lecture. | 3/23/1886 | See Source »

Thus arose the modern Class Day. The class of '39 enlarged the idea. The grass was cut for dancing, a platform was erected behind Stoughton, and a regular band of stringed instruments engaged. In consequence of the new arrangement, the custom of giving "spreads" originated, and the writer has before him a note, yellow with age, dated 1839, which runs as follows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The History of Class Day. | 2/16/1886 | See Source »

...side of Yale." But suffice to say, we do not agree to this verdict. We are not a "bad lot." There are as noble young men among Harvard students as ever despised cant and followed the right. Why then is this unfavorable opinion? It is simply because the rank grass has overtopped good, the tares grown over the wheat. Judged by such a standard as this verdict would necessitate, we would all be athletes, dudes, and writers of sentimental pessimistic verse. This, of course, is absurd. Let us then be judged with fairness if not leniently. We are gentlemen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Morality. | 1/18/1886 | See Source »

...from which being not only offensive but unhealthy. We would remind the fossiliferous yokel who has charge of the farming department of the university, that the fertilizer in question is now only used in the cultivation of potatoes and cabbages in rural districts, and not for the encouragement of grass on gentlemens' lawns; we would also call his attention to the fact that there are many other fertilizers now in use which are not only effective, but also inoffensive. This state of the grass drives us to the sidewalks, and there what do we find? Paving stones sunk below...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/27/1885 | See Source »

...beginning at 10 a. m. Entries may be made at Bartlett's. They will close Saturday at 7 p. m. Entrance fee for the singles will be 50 cents; for the doubles, $1.00. Suitable prizes will be given to the winners in both the singles and the doubles. Five grass courts will be ready on Jarvis Field. Contestants may play either on these or the clay courts, as they prefer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Notices. | 10/23/1885 | See Source »

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