Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...opportunity to meet who otherwise would not do so.- (x) Men who live at a distance from the yard could meet there.- (y) Many men who at present feel that they would be benefited by acquaintance with men of different stamp and who now have no common ground upon which to meet would find one there.- (4) It would give a centre to college life.- (x) It would supply a meeting place for graduates.- (y) It would supply a point towards which students would gravitate for information and in leisure moments for recreation.- (e) It would increase the social life...
...Pennsylvania team race, the closest and most exciting of all. The first relay was between Eaton of Harvard and Sterritt of Pennsylvania. Sterritt finished three yards ahead Boyer took Sterritt's place and Eaton touched Marshall, who was slow in getting off. Marshall succeeded in making up the lost ground and finished almost equal with his opponent. In the third relay Harrison of Pennsylvania and Williams of Harvard started out, the Pennsylvania man leading by a yard. Williams passed Harrison in the last lap and finished five yards ahead. The last relay was between Hollister of Harvard and Sichel...
...years. It is almost exactly four years since the proposition was made to the trustees that they should buy the site that has since come into their possession. Thus in this comparatively short period of time the matter has advanced from a bare proposition to the purchase of the ground, to the approval of a general plan for the arrangement of the buildings upon the new site and to the laying of the corner stone of the library, the first building to be erected. Circumstances have jutified the belief that the re-establishment of the college upon a scale commensurate...
There seems to be just ground of complaint concerning the poor ventilation of the new reading-room in the Library. Apparently the only way of ventilating the room at present is by opening the windows, a method which is not only inadequate, but on account of the draughts which it creates is dangerous to the health of the readers. If this trouble is one which it is possible to abate by putting in any ventilating device, in the roof or elsewhere, the necessary labor will cause less annoyance in the end if it is done now, while other work...
...that every subject must be approved by the Committee on Prizes in Political Science, of which Professor Hart is chairman, before March 1. It is, however, understood that the committee will approve any subject which falls within the peculiar conditions of the prize sought, and does not cover the ground of previous monographs on the same subject...