Word: landed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...game with such manifest advantages, it is plain, should enjoy the protection and bounty of the authorities of the colleges. The generosity which recommends laying out new play-grounds should first make the land already laid out accessible to all students. Now, the tennis association finds it necessary to charge players fifteen to twenty-five cents apiece every time they play. One dollar to a dollar and a half a week for exercise, the majority of students feel, operates as a protective tariff for the sod. As a result, many students are prevented from indulging in this irreproachable form...
...playgrounds are insufficient and the land south of the Charles River should be prepared...
...teams inevitably meet with success? Advocating this idea can but result in inspiring our teams with a feeling of over-confidence which, we know, is always and forever to be avoided. Let the fact that we are tied with Harvard, our valiant adversary, in the number of victories upon land and water incite our men to even greater efforts so that, when the last game at the field has been played and the course at New London finished, the brow of St. Elihu may once again be graced with the laurel crown...
...large amount of real estate which pays no taxes is sometimes complained of by the over-careful tax-payer, who has a feeling that his own taxes are thus made higher. There is probably, however, not a city in New England whose people would not gladly give the land, with perpetual exemption from taxation, if Harvard University would transfer itself within their borders. Harvard certainly contributes vastly more to the city in merely material prosperity than is sacrificed by exemption from taxation. And in quickening the intellectual life of the city, in bringing its people into contact with great thinkers...