Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Advertising copy for a new cinema production known as Grass, released last week, furnished glimpses of the empyrean to which the imagination...
...when the new shell was given its initial trial on the Charles by the first University eight. To a casual observer, the only difference between the new boat and the Pocock shell seemed to be one of color, the latest addition to the University equipment being painted a bright grass green...
...proposed Agricultural College might bring a rural touch and a sweet domesticity heretofore lacking in the Yard. Sheep might graze before Holworthy to keep the grass down and gambol with the students between classes. Nanny goats could glean a comfortable existence from the partly used but still wholesome cigarettes in front of Sever. There could be a dairy under University Hall, restoring as best it could the ancient beer garden. And of a spring evening, when the horses had been driven into Fogg Museum, and the geese safely crowded into Appleton, one might hear the lilting songs of plowboys coming...
...that is illiberal and cheap in American college journalism. It is a fact that many college editors prostitute their intellectual standards and their literary skill to "exhorting application to study, denouncing unmoral students, people who do not cheer at basketball games, radicals and Freshmen Who Walk On The Grass." When modern education allows such inanity to flourish about its inmost shrine there is some reason for Mr. Upton Sinclair's rabidness...
...languid salesmen. Let the college editor go and do likewise. Let him spend his time puzzling out ways of selling his college. Let his editorials be inspirational, exhorting application to study, denouncing immoral students, people who do not cheer at basketball games, radicals and Freshmen Who Walk On The Grass. That is the proper path for him to follow. The New Student...