Word: ruinous
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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During the winter, when the ground is continually thawing on the surface, it is ruinous to the turf to walk on it. But if the powers that reign over the college yard wish to keep the students from walking on the grass, the best way is for them to make walks that will be less muddy than the grass. That this can be done goes without saying. And if the sward we have been so proud of in the past looks rough and worn next Class Day, it will not be entirely the fault of the students, for the grass...
...pond near by and threw the dirty water upon the citizens in such quantities that they were glad to escape. Another amusement, in which they frequently indulged, was the practice of throwing water into any window on the yard which happened to be open. This harmless recreation proved ruinous to the society, for we learn that "about the year 1822, having discharged water into the room of the college regent, thereby damaging a very valuable library of books, the company was disbanded and shortly after the engine was sold to the town of Cambridge, on condition that it should never...
...general management of the dining room. The real success of the hall, however, depends on the price of board. If this is raised beyond a certain sum many men are obliged to leave, their example is followed by others, and in time a stampede occurs such as nearly proved ruinous to the hall last year...
...latter country it may be said that the conditions are vitally different from those of Germany, and because it has proved a success in the one is no reason why it should in the other. For instance in France direct personal suffrage involved the country in a ruinous revolution. In England no one claims that by a system of limited suffrage the political freedom of the people is in any degree curtailed. Moreover in Germany no salaries are paid the members of the Reichstag, which is the body directly representative of the interests of the common people. This...
...order to change the ruinous law lately passed against playing professionals, says the Princeton correspondent of the N. Y. Post, it is further necessary for a repeal to pass the board of trustees only, as it has passed the faculty already. They stipulate, however, that the university nine may play but four nines of the league, and in Princeton only...