Word: turf
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard University said : "I am very willing to do anything I can to bring college cricket before the public, but my knowledge is confined to Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania. At Harvard some years ago some energetic cricketers collected subscriptions enough to lay out a little piece of turf, some twenty or thirty yards, in a part of Holmes field, and this is our ground at the present moment. During the past two years several college matches and matches with the neighboring clubs have been played, but the interest in the college seems to have been gradually failing. Last...
...accident there. How many young and old men find athletic exercise the only safeguard against dyspepsia or insomnia? It is time this tirade against college athletics ceased. American students, despite all that has been said to the contrary, need rather encouragement than discouragement in respect to rational athletic training. - [Turf, Field and Farm...
...street neighbor, in dealing with this question, has "made a mountain out of a mole hill," and we incline to the same opininion. It is too much to assume that wild remarks made by individual students represent the sentiments of the entire body of students of Harvard and Yale. - [Turf, Field and Farm...
...following papers will be on file : Boston Daily Advertiser, Boston Daily Herald, Boston Post, Boston Journal, Boston Transcript, New York Sun, Herald, Times, Tribune and Graphic, Springfield Republican, Louisville Courier Journal, London Graphic, Illustrated News, Punch, Puck, Nation, Good Literature, Music and Drama, Clipper, Spirit of the Times, Turf, Field and Farm, Harpers' Weekly, Sunday Herald and Globe and the Saturday Evening Gazette. Subscribers are requested to pay their subscription at 32 Matthews, or at the reading room, between 10 and 11 at their earliest convenience...
...Lampoon and HERALD as "bencath notice," - so high is it raised above the opinions of its contemporaries, - but it is not at liberty to state that these opinions are not "representative in any degree of the sentiments of the college." The Boston Herald, the Advertiser, the New York Clipper, Turf, Field and Farm and the Daily Sun have testified either their general condemnation of Yale's team, or that the general sentiment of Harvard unites in condemning the team. As a slight corroboration of our explanations on our own account we take the liberty of quoting as follows from...