Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...building, to be called Hamilton court, in honor of Alexander Hamilton, will stand between 120th and 121st Sts. It will be nine stories high, and will cover a plot of ground 200 feet square. Each floor has been designed to accommodate 100 students. The rooms are either single or divided into suites, and will be furnished by the university...
...other people's, and, in the self-importance of early manhood, forget that the world is not for them alone. Students of this kind need delicate handling. They jealously demand to be treated as men, take advantage of the instructors who treat them so, and excuse themselves on the ground that, after all, they are only boys...
...best to have the men who do the throwing concealed, they might be stationed behind a screen of evergreens. The great advantage of this new plan seems to be that there could be no prolonged scrimmage, as the flowers, falling lightly on a compact mass, could never reach the ground...
...suggest that the wreath be placed within reach of a man standing on the ground, with the '97 emblem worked into this wreath; and that the men wear ordinary clothes. This arrangement would do away with the combinations both because a combination would not be needed to get the flowes and because in his ordinary clothes a man could not carry away enough flowers for other members of his combination. Moreover, with this every-man-for-himself idea, we believe that the large societies will agree to discontinue combinations, and that attempts to conceal large quantities of flowers will...
...members of the class do consider their participation in said scrimmage compatible with their cultivation and their gentlemanliness. In this they apparently differ from the Corporation, but it can hardly be that that body intend to pronounce judgment on a difference of such a nature, and, on this ground, to issue a fiat regulating the conduct of the gentlemen who take exception to their opinion. If so, their action in the premises would be comparable to the evidence offered by the sceptic who seeks to deny the fundamental laws of thought. I leave logicians to trace the analogy...