Word: grounde
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...been customary for Leavitt and Peirce to post the scores of the base-ball and other games in their windows every evening for the convenience of the students and others who are interested. On Saturday evening an officious police officer ordered these scores taken down, on the ground that they collected a crowd outside. As a rule, Cambridge policemen are a pretty moderate set of men, but this particular one is rather too zealous. His business was to keep the sidewalk clear and keep people moving; if he was too lazy to undertake this he might have sent to headquarters...
...congratulate the members of the nine on their excellent work of Saturday, and we feel hopeful in regard to the championship. However, there is one thing to be guarded against; it has often been the stumbling-block of Harvard teams. We mean over-confidence. Yale on her own ground is a dangerous opponent, and such an opponent we shall have to contend against next Saturday. Harvard is now at the head of the intercollegiate league and it remains to be seen whether she can continue to hold her own. Only the most careful attention to work can enable...
...abuses which the overseers wish to put an end to. Only last year, they voted voluntarily to confine the baseball games to Yale and Princeton, so that the number of games played should be decreased. The tendency toward class and scrub boat races shows conclusively how little ground there is for the assertion that the University crew is the only one to which encouragement is given, and a glance at the football field in the fall, the gymnasium in winter, the baseball field in the spring, and the running track, the cricket crease, the lacross field and the tennis nets...
...understand it, the views of the faculty upon the subject are these: they object to our playing with professionals, as is well known, on the ground that they fear "contamination" and a "degradation of college spirit of honor and fair play." It is also well known that it is the desire of many of the faculty that intercollegiate sports should be narrowed down to contests between Harvard and Yale. This is the opinion of the conservative element. Having reduced the contests to Harvard and Yale, the faculty feel that they can bring sufficient pressure to bear upon the Yale faculty...
...April number of the Quarterly Journal of Economics will contain the reply of President F. A. Walker to Professor McVane's criticisms on his "Theory of Business Profits"; an article on the "Philadelphia Ground Rent System," which has done so much to make that city a "city of homes," and a study of "United States Tariff History from 1830 to 1860," by Professor Taussig...