Word: turfing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Turf, Field, and Farm, says; "Harvard College considers her prospects on the water for this year quite as good as last year, and perhaps better, and believes that the 'Varsity crew will work hard to put in another victory for the crimson...
...certain Mr. Billings has recently written an open letter to the President and fellows of Harvard College through the columns of the Turf, Field and Farm, in which he attacks the Harvard Veterinary School in a very vigorous and somewhat excited manner. The gentleman that wrote it assures his readers that "he is not a 'sore head' " but that he looks upon the "subscription plan" by which the school is carried on as "a disgrace to Harvard College and as bound to exert a most baneful influence, by its example, on the future of American veterinary medicine." This subscription plan...
...that occupied by the Cooperative Society. The list of papers and periodicals there to be found is as follows: Boston Advertiser, Herald, Globe, Transcript, Traveller, Saturday Evening Gazette; New York Herald, Tribune, Times, Post, Truth; Springfield Republican; London Punch, Graphic, Illustrated News and Weekly Times; The Graphic, Life, Clipper, Turf, Field and Farm, Spirit of the Times; The Modern Age, Progress, Puck; New Haven Union; Good Literature. This list will soon be enlarged. The Reading Room is indebted to the HERALD-CRIMSON for several of the above papers. All the college exchanges, by courtesy of the Advocate, will soon...
During the winter, when the ground is continually thawing on the surface, it is ruinous to the turf to walk on it. But if the powers that reign over the college yard wish to keep the students from walking on the grass, the best way is for them to make walks that will be less muddy than the grass. That this can be done goes without saying. And if the sward we have been so proud of in the past looks rough and worn next Class Day, it will not be entirely the fault of the students, for the grass...
...Turf, Field and Farm says that in Henry, Harvard has the best half-back ever seen in New York...