Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hand, and who wish to keep beside them a pleasant reminder of their college years. The view is from the marshes on the Brighton side of the Charles looking almost eastward. In the foreground at a bend of the river lies an old dismantled boat shaded with marsh grass, and beyond, removed by two bends of the river, a single masted sail boat. Trees cover the rise between the river and the highlands, and over all at the right of the centre stands the tower of Memorial Hall, and by its side the belfry of the old Unitarian church...
...HUBBARD, Sec.FOUND.- A stylographic pen in the grass by the Co-operative...
...careful not to walk on the edges of paths, which intersect the college yard. Last spring no such warning was given and the result was that towards the end of April the yard presented a rather wild appearance: corners were trodden down, edges were worn off, whole plots of grass had disappeared. The college authorities naturally saw themselves compelled to restore the yard to its usual well kept condition, but this fact should not be cause for unnecessary vandalism...
...second kind of ticket consists in a sheet of 25 coupons, each marked five cents. The price for play is as follows: Dirt courts for doubles, 10 cents a player, or 2 coupons; singles, 15 cents, or 3 coupons. Grass courts doubles, 20 cents a player, or 4 coupons; singles, 25 cents, or 5 coupons. Twenty-five coupons are sold for $1.00, so that by buying them a player saves 20 per cent. on the cash price. These coupons will be on sale next Monday at the Co-operative store...
...tendencies" and "optional system" have gone far enough. The movement has already been carried so far as to "embarrass the faculty in the arrangement of recitations, and to bewilder the student at the latitude of his possible selections," while at Harvard the unfortunate undergraduate is "practically turned out to grass, to nibble at his own sweet will." The Mail and Express, like a stern parent, suggests in the case of freshmen, that instead of placing the divining rod in the hand of that precious youth, it would be more fitting to apply it elsewhere. While we can hardly agree...