Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Unawed by militarism, a chunky Eli, Halfback Pond, greeted their team promptly with a plunge, a twist, a struggle, a 48-yard dash for a touchdown. The Army marched and countermarched its backfield squad, right and left and double-time, but only once reached the end of the parade ground. Home marched the cadets, more evenly than ever. Score: Yale 7, Army...
...autumn the two fifteens met again, this time on famous and fashionable old St. George's Cricket Ground in Hoboken, New Jersey. In this second encounter, Princeton won. In 1878, back Princeton came and met Harvard on Boston Common, Princeton again winning. The following year, 1879, Harvard again journeyed to Hoboken and again suffered defeat. During these three years the famous "fifteen" of Rugby tradition had been reduced to "eleven," and the basic line of cleavage established which in time was to produce a distinctive American game...
...forth in the new building program, is almost certain to arouse student opposition from at least a portion of the undergraduate body. It is new. It is sudden. Above all, it seems to encroach upon what many members of the University have time out of mind considered hallowed ground. So away with...
...Great Saint Bernard hospice, long the stalking ground of Upidee and other inlaid ghosts of romantic legend, is giving up its ancient and abivairous custom of giving free fool and stirred to every weary pilgrim. It is said that the threadbare monks are stirred by the affluent cars and apparel of their humble guests to set up a hotel under a skilled extartioner; and that voluntary contributions have not sufficed to maintain the momstery. But the often fleeced American traveler is likely to suspect that the monks have found that the "Dine and Dance" electric flasher attracts the crowds more...
Yale University, confronted with a housing problem by reason of increased enrolment, settled the quandry in a manner which seemed, to the unbiased observer, direct enough. A new dormitory was designed, a site chosen on the campus, and early one morning some workmen went out with picks and broke ground. Instantly the University was swept with winds, avalanches, storms, of protest, objection, controversy. The dormitory had been designed as a reproduction of Connecticut Hall, home of the fathers of Yale, in their day the only building on the Campus.* That any other should be erected, whether in imitation...