Word: path
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Still, it must be understood that we do not undertake to keep such a body as the Board of Overseers in the path of consistency, that is altogether too difficult and irksome a task for us to attempt. We point out the true course for them to take, we persuade them to adopt this course,-and here our duty to the University ends. After that, we wash our hands on the whole body, and leave them to their fate. Perhaps, however, our restless contemporary the Advocate, which is so clear in understanding articles of a facetious nature, may be willing...
...track of the University of Pennsylvania, with all the necessary buildings, etc., has been completed. It is an oval quarter-mile cinder path, eighteen feet wide on the straight and fifteen on the remainder...
...there was the machinelike play of the team as a whole aided by the efficient umpire, which was a pleasure to see. The backing up of the man with ball always enabled him to pass it when in a strait, and the warding off of opposing tacklers made his path easy. Much of this latter was unfair as it was off-side, but it was done with such system that the thoroughness of preparation required cannot but be admired. The intentness on the game of the men was also good. Likewise their ability to tackle and rush as well...
...walk which leads to Holmes and Jarvis fields, passing by the west side of Jefferson Physical Laboratory, is composed of such soft substance that few care to use it. The consequence is that nearly everyone who wishes to reach the fields by this path walks on the grass by the side, and will soon tramp it down so that next spring the appearance of that part of the grounds will be careless and unfelt. We cannot blame the students for preferring soft grass to dusty gravel walks. The college authorities should have the paths watered and rolled...
...bought by eager purchasers to serve the same purposes in their own houses. However, now that the old house has gone, Austin Hall is seen to much better advantage. Indeed, one of the best vantage points from which to study its architectural effect as a whole is near the path which leads from the gymnasium to the physical laboratory. The gymnasium is also relieved by the change of a very near neighbor, so near that it almost trod upon its heels. Altogether, considering the weak and untenable condition of the old house and the probability that it would come down...