Word: straying
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Considerable damage has been done already in the way of breaking glass, and a greater injury is threatened to apparatus of a valuable kind left near windows exposed to the stray balls. Of course the Faculty could deal with matter directly, and take steps to protect the property by regulations and penalties, but it greatly prefers to leave a matter of this kind to be righted by student action. Acting upon this preference, which I am sure you will be glad to justify, it requests the Athletic Association or its officers to take such steps as may make further action...
Monday afternoon a stray bullet broke one of the windows in the library of the Law School...
...ostrich which was lately presented to the Biological Department was found to contain two cents, a brass button and a hair brush. The seniors wish to help in its dissection, in the hope of finding a stray watch or so. - Pennsylvanian...
...season for tennis is now at hand, and it may not be amiss to make a suggestion to the management of the tennis association. Every player knows the bother and inconvenience of having to rush across another man's court to get a stray ball. There is no reason why there should not be stop-nets about every court, as the expense of getting them and putting them up would be very slight. By following this hint we believe the management will earn the thanks of all lovers of tennis...
...order. Hence, we plead for the protection of the grass; and now especially because upon these few weeks depends its state for the entire spring and summer. The snow and ice over which we could walk at random without damaging the under-lying grass, have melted. Now, if we stray off the paths and take short-cuts, resultant devastation is certain. Why study the natural laws of cause and effect unless we apply them...