Word: grounde
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...subject has stopped altogether. The advantages to be gained by putting such a plan into execution, makes it worth while to give the subject fair consideration. If the Athletic Association is unwilling to cover the track on Holmes with water, Jarvis Field still remains. It is true that the ground is higher than Holmes Field but this fact does not make it impossible nor even very difficult to flood the field. A low embankment either of earth or snow would be sufficient to keep the water from running off, and if the field is flooded when the ground is frozen...
...first article, "Integers and Fractions" is an excellent little essay in which the writer takes the ground that mankind is divided into two classes-the integers, those who look upon life in a manly earnest way, following out their allotted path with simple faith in their own power to do their duty; and the fractions, those who pursue one idea with such enthusiasm that they become bound up in it, forgetting that there are other aims and aspirations and duties in life beyond that one idea. The writer calls those who burst their bonds and try to fill a sphere...
...with great pleasure that we learn of a valuable addition to the buildings of the University. In the spring, ground will be broken for another section of the museum of Comparative Zoology. The new section will be a continuation of the present west wing and will be used to accommodate the growing needs of the botanical department. It will contain laboratories for the study of both cryptogamic and phaenogamic botany. There will also be rooms for the exhibition of the economic and systematic collections already accumulated, and for which there is at present no adequate accommodation...
During the recess, the Weston electric car made a trip from the Square to the Port when the ground was covered with snow. It was fairly successful, but an immense amount of sand was required on the rails. Some improvements are going to be made on the car by connecting the motor with both axles and by using the new style polygonal wheels...
...last Tech has a long editorial on the advantages and disadvantages of the purchase of the M. I. T. by Harvard. It says, "On carefully going over all the ground it seems to us that the only advantage of any real practical value would be the increased amount of money the institute might get to improve its facilities for teaching...