Word: land
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Dark clouds blew up from eastward, and the loud land...
...inveighs against the iniquity of the Lacrosse Association in getting from the President a grant of land that had been "occupied for years" by others, - to wit, the tennis men. As a matter of fact, when their present ground was given to the Association the only courts that were in the neighborhood were between the Society building and the College Hospital; a position in which they were not likely to be interfered with by the practising of the Team. The other courts that are now crowded in near the path have been marked there since then...
...give a grant in the case of the Lacrosse Association, - does not this show that Lacrosse, in his eyes, possessed a superior dignity and importance? If ??? doubted the President's power in the matter, how does he suppose the Base Ball and Football Teams got the right to the land they now occupy...
...distance stretches on three sides the limitless forest, while on the east, just below, the ocean, murmuring legends of distant lands, coaxes the shore to sleep. The space thus enclosed between forest and sea seems a very paradise. Gentle slopes separate the green hills from the fertile valleys; blue streams ripple joyfully to the sea; the whole place is sparsely covered with noble trees, individualized into a more gigantic beauty than that of their kinsmen in the forest. In the fairest of the valleys, next the sea, protected on the north and west by gently sloping yet lofty hills, lies...
...chapel, conversation of any kind in the seats, the unnecessary coughing which ofttimes makes itself conspicuous - all these are breaches of good taste and good breeding which are designed to create an ill impression in the mind of a beholder. Nor ought any one educated in a Christian land fail to wait reverently to the close of the benediction and the responsive amen without motion toward departure. Nothing short of this becomes a house dedicated to the worship...