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Word: grounds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...letters printed herewith, one from Mr. Dean and the other from Mr. Spalding. We certainly think it undesirable that gentlemen should engage in sports on such terms; butin view of the fact that members of this exhibition baseball team came also from Yale and Princeton, we see no ground for special condemnation of the Harvard players...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD'S REPLY. | 12/20/1889 | See Source »

...lecturer spoke as follows: Roughly speaking, the arid region extends from the 100th meridian to the Pacific ocean, between the 100th and the 105th lies the so called "debatable ground." an enormous piece of territory upon which agriculture is in some years profitable, in others, not. Washington Oregon, and the northern part of California are excluded from this rough outline. The total area is about 1.300,000 square miles, or 40 per cent. of the United States. The question is how to make this region profitable for agriculture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Gregory's Lecture. | 12/20/1889 | See Source »

...stream up in the mountains; water is led off by long canals down into the valleys, and each farmer in turn taps the canal to irrigate his land. The laterals are at times but 100 feet apart, and the water flowing through them moistens all the intervening ground...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Gregory's Lecture. | 12/20/1889 | See Source »

...proved by the immense amount invested in these canals. There are more than 12000 miles of canals, with 300,000 miles of laterals, an investment of over $100,000,000. Alfalfa is cultivated to a great extent on ranches, and where formerly forty acres of grazing ground were needed for one head of stock, now one acre of alfalfa supplies food for two and a half heads...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Gregory's Lecture. | 12/20/1889 | See Source »

...DEAR SIR.- The editors of the DAILY CRIMSON hereby challenge the editors of the Lampoon to a game of football to be played on Jarvis field, on the afternoon of Saturday, December 7, (provided the ground be not too hard). This challenge has been given with a view to settling by blood if possible, the deadly fend which has existed between the Lampoon and CRIMSON from time immemorial...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: By the Way. | 12/7/1889 | See Source »

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