Word: sloping
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...kind-hearted man can possibly have any objection to having the youth of Cambridge disport themselves on the gently sloping hill that leads down from President Eliot's house to the Library, when the hard frozen snow invites to sleds and toboggaus. But we do object to having the studious part of the college community exposed to the constant risk of being taken off their feet by the runners of the little coasters as they come flying down the slope. If these innocent children had any conception of the danger they occasion the college "grind," they would immediately desert this...
...well feel justified in phrophesying a brilliant future for the university that is to be. Sad as it may be to think that the future classes of '97, '98, and the rest, may not count in their number the smiling member from San Francisco and the Pacific Slope, who now seems an indispensable part of Harvard, we must school ourselves to the idea of separation. However, notwithstanding this serious drawback, Stanford University has our best wishes. It is sincerely to be hoped that no mismanagement, such as is only too common in works of this time will prevent the fulfilment...
...excitement becomes intense. Every available standing place is occupied; every window is full; some housetops are covered. One original man has removed enough tiles from his roof to admit of the protrusion of his head. It gives one quite a start to look up and see the gray, mossy slope of the roof adorned by one human head, red faced, fat cheeked, with huge spectacles on and with an umbrella raised to protect it from the hot August sun. Whether the heroic watcher was standing on a stringer or whether kind hands supported him beneath, or whether he was prosaically...
...Yale News and the Princetonian, after a recess of two months, have again begun the foot-ball war in their columns. The slope of the ground on the Yale field is bitterly complained of by the Princetonian...
...rather a curious illustration of the barriers which conventional boundary lines may create, that Canada is represented in this college by only three students. The Pacific slope, which is ten times farther away, sends thirty students here; the city of San Francisco alone has twenty-two. And yet there is probably as large a well-to-do class in either Montreal or Quebec as there is in the American city. The great difficulty about attracting Canadian students to this country is, that a college is almost entirely deprived of the most effective means of overcoming international prejudice and conservatism - advertising...