Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Elinor Whitney and Dorothy, buxom, frizzy-haired daughters of Manhattan Pastor Harry Emerson Fosdick, were appointed "grass cops" at Smith College. Armed with whistles, they will blow a smart blast whenever they see trespassers treading tender turf...
...week, from as far away as Boston and Atlanta, to a long clearing in a fragrant pine forest in North Carolina. There, awaiting its first formal inspection by important outsiders, stood the most prodigious new educational project in the land this century?Duke University, now nearly complete though little grass yet grows on its sandy campus, no ivy on its neo-Gothic walls of soft-colored fieldstone...
...elms that made Massachusetts Avenue a shady, restful country lane. Well--, the Vagabond realizes that the world must change, and he supposes that twentieth century traffic on the Avenue, gasoline fumes, and the Boston subway really represent progress. But he still holds firm to his belief that green grass and college campi are one and inseparable, and when it is proposed to remove a major part of the remaining vestiges of grass, particularly in the Yard, the Vagabond's soul recoils with horror. Controversy there is bound to be over the erection of a new chapel, and the Vagabond does...
...this year, will be torn down or removed from its site in front of Standish Hall, according to Delmar Leighton '19, Dean of Freshmen. The building, originally more convenient to first-year students than the libraries of the yard, will give place this summer to an open triangle of grass and shrubbery. 2500 or more books essential for Freshman History and English studies will probably be placed in what is now a private dining room on the second floor of the Union, where the volumes will be used for study and kept entirely separate from the general library...
...southeast corner of Widener Library making a jagged escarpment more than a dozen feet high through the bed rock. This will be levelled off and steps or terraces planted with shrubbery will be constructed. It is hoped that these operations will be completed, and the ground covered with grass at the time of occupation of the new dormitories...