Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...matter of landscape gardening Harvard certainly does not excel. Much as we prize the beauty of the yard as it is, we think that there is still great room for improvement. It is but a few days since the authorities in a well-meaning way spread a nasty mess of muck over the entire yard, the odors arising from which being not only offensive but unhealthy. We would remind the fossiliferous yokel who has charge of the farming department of the university, that the fertilizer in question is now only used in the cultivation of potatoes and cabbages in rural...
...state of society, however, was very uncivilized. "Simple crimes like murder and theft," when once proved were quickly dealt with. There was a brief period of a wide-spread, well organized society, yet it did not last, for it was not founded on moral instinct which is a necessary foundation of all stable order. The treason of carelessness was the greatest sin of the early Californian, and for it he was obliged to severely atone...
...walked on their heads. They tore off the few freshmen who had on shirts every sign of them. They rolled the freshmen on the ground and walked on them. Most of the freshmen looked as if they thought the end of the world had come. Their red paint spread all over them like oil on troubled waters. Their faces were scratched and their trousers were torn. They looked sad and goreful. Sophomore Parker performed ground and lofty tumbling. He was occasionally seen to rise in the air and sail horizontally over the outskirts of the cloud. He usually came down...
...ADAMS, Chief Junior Usher.H. P. C. SPREAD. The class day spread occurs in Sever immediately after the exercises in the Theatre. Past and present members are entitled to membership tickets. They can take friends with them by payment of 95 cents at the door...
...SMITH, Chairman Spread...