Word: soils
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...made the occasion of such a gift as the one in contemplation. "It was when Washington was in Philadelphia, in 1796, as president," says Progress, "that he made the munificent gift of $50,000 to Liberty Hall Academy, now Washington and Lee University; and it was upon Pennsylvania's soil, and in the Sacred Hall of Independence, that the Centennial Organization, for adding to its usefulness, was perfected in 1876. And the fact that Washington never received pecuniary compensation for his services in the army, leaves a debt to be paid to his memory by the American people...
...that the writer felt compelled to use such vigorous language as to assure his readers that those who advised the foundation of the school did it solely for their own selfish purposes, or that the school appears to have been established for the "development of English flunkeyism on American soil," while he also takes occasion to use Butler's furious war cry, "Harvard deeds!" Such statements do not deserve a reply; they carry their own refutation with them from their absurdity...
...repeated efforts of Columbia, steadily increased her advantage until the end of ten minutes. In the second heat Lafayette won the choice of position and easily pulled Princeton, the anchor of the latter team being pulled completely from his position largely on account of the nature of the soil. In the final pull Lafayette won the toss and took the side which had been successful in the two previous pulls. Although Harvard pulled in beautiful form she was beaten by about 3 feet. If any proof were needed that this event should not be in the inter-collegiate sports...
...influence of rent on the distribution of wealth. said that rent did not affect the customer, in that it did not affect the price of food, and moreover did not affect the wages of the laborer, understanding laborer in the English sense, as the man who tilled the soil under the payment of the tenant farmer. The laborer's wages were regulated by the supply and demand of labor. The theory of rent could not apply to capital invested in improvements on land. There was no rent paying land, but there was not any no-interest paying capital. The interest...
However much the university may grow, the north-east corner of Holmes field is safe from any encroachment for building purposes. Every one has noticed the muddy character of the soil there, but probably few have known the reason of it. That corner of the ground is, in fact, a rich peat-field, and if worked would doubtless yield no small returns. This fact, however, renders it unfit for holding the foundations of a building, so that athletics if finally, in the coming centuries, pinned down to that section, will be sure of one safe refuge from the advances...