Word: playground
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...result, many students are prevented from indulging in this irreproachable form of exercise. The treasury which can open its vaults for a trainer and a running track and can pay for "the preparation of a large arege area of land for use as a college playground" cannot plead poverty to the demand for free tennis...
...college sadly needs a yard policeman, whose duty it shall be to look after the yard and fields. The college yard is fast becoming a grand playground for Cambridge infant muckerdom. Exciting bicycle races between ten-year-olders on squeaking, rattling "machines," eliciting shrill yells from their mucker audience, are not soothing to the nervous systems of the inhabitants of ground floor rooms. We all know what a nuisance the muckers are when a concert or anything else is going on in the yard, and how annoying they are when we wish to lie around under the trees in warm...
Should the latter layout be decided upon by the railroad company and approved by the railroad commissioners it would virtually ruin Yale's new playground. A knowledge of the danger which threatens the ground is confined to a few members of the association. The organization comprises many men of wealth and influence, who would doubtless make quite as determined a fight against this layout as the residents of the western district did. It is generally believed however that the opposition would not prove so effective in accomplishing the desired result...
...medical men answer. I am ashamed to argue such a question. The whole business is demoralizing and directly inimical to the objects of a collegiate institution. Roughness, vulgarity, and the disgusting pretentiousness of Young America are the common results of the system. Let the college campus be the playground of the collegians, and let them there engage in any form of impromptu pastime under the eyes of their teachers and guardians. This is wholesome and sensible and satisfactory to wise parents. But, in the name of morality and common sense, do not let them become strolling players and itinerent roughs...