Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most unusual of old Holworthy customs had to do with the annual Class Day celebration. As soon as all ladies had left the Yard, the residents of Holworthy would come charging down the lawn, taking off their clothes as they ran. The goal of so strange a chase was the fountain erected each year to commemorate Class Day. Eventually the practice of taking an annual bath in the Yard spread to the whole college...
Then French Canadians adopted baggataway and softened it up a little. But what the Canucks called lacrosse (because the stick looked like a bishop's crosier) was still mayhem on the lawn. Today, in its ultimate refinement, lacrasse is played by ten-men teams on fields 110 yards long. Modern players are not too proud to protect themselves with helmets, shoulder pads, arm pads and long, ribbed gloves. Almost anything goes in the effort to move downfield and toss an India rubber ball into a netted goal, 6 ft. square. The ball can be carried, thrown or batted with...
...boiled eggs. Across the Irish Sea the custom was known as "trundling," and one Irish historian noted suspiciously that "it is a curious circumstance that this sport is produced only by the Presbyterians." No Presbyterian, President Rutherford B. Hayes, a para-Methodist, established egg rolling on the White House lawn. Before his time, children had rolled their eggs down the Capitol slopes as a climax to their annual Sunday School Union parades, but Congress was fussy about its grass, and ordered them off the premises in 1877. Hayes welcomed them to the White House grounds. By the first Administration...
...criticism of major policies as the Democrats in the last two years. They have been very much to the fore in criticizing the Dixon-Yates power contract, the President's association with Bobby Jones, the Administration's farm program, the trapping of squirrels on the White House lawn and Mr. Eisenhower's churchgoing, but on the big issues [of] civil liberties and peace and war, their tardiness and timidity have been remarkable. "It has been the press and not the leaders of the Democratic Party who have drawn the attention of the country to the sloganeering...
...voice warned and a root tripped him at the edge of a precipice. It carries him to the U.S. on "orders from the Chief," through Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Ga., and eventually to Atlanta, where his powerful sermons packed them in and even stood them up on the lawn outside...