Word: landing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...others, has two horns. You take one horn when you say the college must have more grounds. For eighteen men to play base ball a field of three or four acres is necessary. To make the game a general recreation for students at large would require all the unoceeupied land for miles around. President Eliot took the other horn of the dilemmanamely, that base ball should be supplanted by some game which requires less territory. Such a game is lawn tennis. The Jarvis base ball grounds, if laid out in double courts would furnish tennins grounds for over one hundred...
...major part of which was used exclusively for base ball, the remainder being divided into tennis courts, from a dozen to twenty in number; Holmes field divided thus, a large field used for foot-ball in autumn and by the freshman nine in spring, smaller fields of poor land devoted to lacrosse and cricket respectively and the remaining nooks and corners taken up by a varying number of tennis courts. Most of the courts were poor, owing to the soft and rolling nature of the land. Even then there was much overlapping of the lacrosse, tennis and cricket grounds...
...students. Should Harvard expect to find sufficient room to exercise her hundreds of undergraduates in on fields no larger than are owned by many colleges less than half her size? More grounds must be bought if Harvard is to maintain her general interest in athletics. Moreover, this land should be determined on and bought at once, as the price of real estate in Cambridge is rising and will rise even more rapidly if an elevated road is built to Boston. Either the faculty should advise the corporation to appropriate the necessary funds or else graduates and undergraduates interested...
...necessity for more land is fast being forced upon the college, and the marked changes in our athletic grounds this spring emphasize this need even more strongly than ever before. The gradual usurpations of the university teams, whose name, in truth, is legion, upon the grounds that have hitherto been given up to tennis, or to any outdoor exercise of those men who did not play on any of the teams, while it may be necessary so long as the teams hold their present position, is yet much to be regretted. There is, perhaps, no sport in college in such...
...lead. Several plans of approach were undertaken, but each in turn failed, chiefly on account of the natural obstacles which had to be overcome or which arose unexpectedly. Among these were attempts to utilize the Yazoo river, the Lake Providence pass, and a canal across the neck of land opposite Vicksburg...