Word: grasse
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...upon our tennis courts and deliberately engages in an offensive scrub game of ball. The college grounds at all hours of the day are the play-ground of youths who find no better enjoyment than in foul language and in playing hockey, polo they call it, upon the effeminate grass. The only active pump in the yard is their headquarters, and the thirsty student is often compelled to await his turn until the individual members of the detail of muckerism which happens to have precedence over him have sufficiently amused themselves and their comrades by various feats of agility...
...LOVER OF GRASS...
...frighten the small boys away. The suggestion is praiseworthy. But a further and still more valuable use might be made of the said policeman. He might be employed as a portable scare-crow and have appended to him before and aft placards bearing the firm injunction, keep off the grass. He might then be moved from place to place by "the authorities," and put athwart the pths of the sand-loving students who prefer to see a checker-board of paths, rather than to take a few extra steps and have a nice lawn of grass. Such a method...
...spectators had hardly assembled on Holmes, yesterday afternoon, when a smart shower caused a general stampede for shelter. As soon as the rain had stopped, the two nines, followed by the spectators, proceeded to Jarvis, where Captain Winslow had determined to play, owing to the slippery condition of the grass upon Holmes...
...foot-ball and lacrosse teams. It was the scene of our signal defeat in foot-ball by Yale in 1882, an event which is doubtless well remembered by most of the men in college. On the western section of Holmes, which was covered with a coarse growth of grass and possessed a delightfully undulatory surface, exciting games of ball were played by those who were at a maximum in their amateurity, being men chosen from club tables or college societies. A few grasson dirt, or dirto-grass tennis courts were here and there on the field, and when...