Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...shown that the very same clothes are offensive when worn in the presence of ladies at public games of the football team. In neither case are the wearers of the clothes so near the spectators that the clothes need be "offensive." There has been unfortunately some small ground for the objection that the scrimmage has become, to use the extreme language of the communication, a "fight in which to pay off old scores instead of a good-natured scramble." Whatever trouble there may have been in past years has been caused by placing the flowers so high that...
...impossible to meet the argument on the ground of strict rights. But, from a practica point of view, that argument insists too strictly on private rights. It is better for the college as a whole that there should be an infirmary. Moreover, the thought that fellow students are sick and in suffering, and lack the necessary comforts and treatment should be intolerable to every college man. For those men who do not feel the bonds and obligations of a common life and common fellowship in a seat of learning the gates are closed on the fulness and largeness of life...
After the discussion was ended, the Athletic Committee held a meeting to consider the petition asking that Rondelle be engaged as instructor in fencing. The petition was refused on the ground that Mr. Rohs has already been engaged for that purpose and is now giving instruction at the Gymnasium...
...Mott Haven team would suffer greatly. A good cinder track can be built and put into good condition, under the most favorable circumstances, in not less than two or three years. On the soggy, infirm ground of Soldiers Field it would take longer. Some of the track athletic authorities, indeed, believe that an even, smooth and firm track could never be built and kept in condition...
...these reasons the nine and the Mott Haven team should be allowed to use Holmes Field at least another year. If at any time the welfare of the University demands the ground occupied by the diamond and the track for purposes nearer to the aims and needs of Harvard, athletics should willingly be removed. But as yet no immediate need for the ground has been made known to the undergraduates at large. Until such a need is shown, the nine and the track team should be unmolested and should be allowed to build all necessary grandstands on Holmes Field...