Word: standing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Mass Meeting. Arrangements for grand stand. Holden Chapel...
...grand stand to cost over $14,000 is preposterous. The committee having the supervision of the present plans must reduce them to reasonable limits. If that is impossible, let them reject the present plans entirely and employ an architect to draw new plans, the execution of which shall not be beyond the means of the people who are to build the stand. It is necessary that a grand stand such as we need should be well made, and not a mere temporary affair, and also desirable that it should be ornamental and in keeping with its surroundings...
...students should give heed to the announcement of the track committee published in another part of this morning's issue. A mass meeting will be held this evening at which the erection of a grand stand for Holmes Field is to be discussed and a committee elected to raise money for building such a structure. All should attend as it is of the utmost importance that this committee which we are to choose be composed of the most energetic and business-like men we can find in college. A grand stand for the better accommodations of our fair spectators...
...casual visitor to Jarvis Field sometimes wonders at a group of men on the southern end of the field, who, with their legs guarded by curious pads, stand in front of three upright stakes at the end of a smooth gravel path, and bat the balls thrown at them by the bowler. This is the cricket eleven practising...
Alas that the reality is so far from embodying your ideal! The twelve hundred books stand boldly out into the room. Simplicity, to speak moderately, reigns everywhere. She appears, in not her most attractive form, in the Franklin stove. She stares blankly at you from her "BOOKS RETURNED," and "BOOKS RECEIVED," which are pasted on the wall over the narrow mantel-piece, and which indicate that there is to be found the connection between the Annex and the Harvard Library. The dimity curtains and patch-covered window-seats cannot be offended at being dubbed "simple." But simplicity abdicates her sway...