Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Wednesday, February 12, 1913, ground was broken for the new Widener Memorial Library, and the corner stone was laid with impressive ceremonies on June 16, 1913. The exterior work on the building is now completed, and the plastering which is at present occupying the workmen, will probably not be finished until August. The tile work, floors, painting, and decorating still remain to be done...
Immeiately after morning prayers the students proceeded to their recitations before breakfast, which was served at 7.30 o'clock. This order of exercises was justified on the ground that it was important that the undergraduates should not only be roused from their beds, but called to some intellectual exertion at an early hour; and that a recitation after rising in the morning was the best security for the proper employment of the previous evening...
...call, urge action, and in so doing do credit to the valor and hope of youth. Alumni, resident in Massachusetts, no doubt will look with favor on a more aggressive and formal policy than hitherto has governed the institution. This of course can be done solely on the ground of service to be rendered, and without the slightest expectation that the institution ever is to ask from the state more financial aid than it now gets, namely, tax exemption. As a matter of principle and conviction any deliberate formal change from the traditional type of privately supported university would...
...Deutscher Verein after five hard innings took the measure of the Cercle Francais on Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon to the tune of 14 to 13. The final score is more or less problematic because the last of the three umpires, about to announce the score, slipped on wet ground and broke his word. The knock-out drops of Francke and Pabst were too much for the Frenchmen who passed out repeatedly after three feeble whiffs at the pellet. The afternoon was voted a most successful one by all present...
...open up, allowing the members of the G. A. R. and veterans to march into the transept where they will salute the tablets commemorated to Harvard men who were killed in the civil war. After this ceremony, the whole company will take the seats reserved for them on the ground floor in Sanders Theatre...