Word: landed
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...country squire, comes up to London to the fair, to get his marriage license, attended by Waspe, his testy guardian, who calls for the license at John Littlewit's. Mrs. Littlewit conceives a violent craving for roast pig, and Dame Purecraft, her mother, and Rabbi Zeal-of-the-Land Busy, both hypocritical Puritans, agree to escort her to the fair, where it may be obtained, although they protest loudly against the vanity of such shows. The Rabbi salves his conscience for going by promising to eat to the fall of the wicked and to "eat exceedingly." Overdo, a justice...
...original field consisted of about 20 acres lying on the Charles River Parkway and North Harvard street, the land which is now in use. Since 1898 the Longfellow Marsh, which is the unreclaimed land to the west of the Stadium has been acquired and enclosed to form part of Soldiers Field. In 1903, before deciding definitely on the location of the Stadium, the Athletic Committee purchased two pieces of property, amounting in all to about two acres, on the south side of the field. This gave the field a square shape entirely surrounded by streets and public reservations, but with...
...progress of reclamation of Soldiers Field has been slow and irregular. In 1905 and again in 1906 small portions of the land now available were reclaimed, but since then nothing has been done except of a rudimentary nature. The total area of the field as it is now bounded is about 61 acres. Of this about 24 acres are entirely developed, about 9 acres are underdrained but not ready for use until a proper surface has been placed upon it, and about 28 acres are entirely undeveloped...
...Athletic Committee has taken steps toward reclaiming more land this spring, and already surveys have been made and estimates are being prepared. It has been prompted to act by the necessity for providing more playgrounds in order to accommodate the rapidly increasing number of class teams, scrub teams, and teams representing new branches of athletic sports...
Side by side with the crying need for a new gymnasium stands the necessity of more improved land for the promotion of our ever-growing intracollegiate athletics. The increasing interest that has been taken of late in that kind of sport is a most healthy manifestation, which deserves, in the estimation of the most ardent supporter or the most vehement opponent of intercollegiate athletics, every possible encouragement. And yet, of Soldiers, Field only 24 acres, or less than half of its total area, are available for use. The cricket team was driven out of existence by the pressure of other...