Word: ground
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...students rooming in College who occupy ground-floor rooms which do not face on the Yard, are warned to be particularly careful to lock their windows on Class-Day evening. This precaution is absolutely necessary, both in the protection of their own property and for rendering the roping in of the Yard effectual...
...mysterious as is to the Freshman the query, "Why am I in college?" Their knowledge, too, they hold as some talisman to be used, apparently, in imposing upon others, but nevertheless as something so entirely separate from their own characters that the very mention of it is ground for the accusation of "talking shop...
...existence of policemen and penitentiaries will be a constant imputation on their virtue; and they will become miserable if indeed they do not become, as when under proctors, liars. But you know, as well as I, the shallowness of their morality, which would justify dishonorable action on the ground of its expediency, and in the face of a condition or the loss of a degree would make cribbing a virtue endowed with saving grace. Just as though such losses were not the inevitable result of previous, long-continued neglect of duty; and they would be borne as such...
...Princeton men played under disadvantages in not being accustomed to level ground and feeling strange in the presence of gentlemen. They could not have failed to notice the contrast between our treatment of their Nine and their treatment of ours. Their fine plays, when discoverable, were received with as great applause as were those of our own Nine, and they received that courtesy always due to strangers...
Again, many students regard the use of illegal help in examination as free from deception or disrepute, on the ground that the Faculty show that they expect them to use illegal help by the supervision of proctors; and many who use such aid at present would not think of doing so if proctors were dispensed with...