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...soon as th frost is out, the builders will begin grading and terracing, the grounds. The grass courtyards will be intersected by gravel walks. An iron fence similar in design to that surrounding Soldiers Field will be built on Boylston street in front of Smith Hall, and along Charles River Road from the power house to Standish Hall, between Standish and Gore Halls, and across the court yard of Gore Hall. In this last section will be placed a gate given by the Fly Club in memory of their members who died in the Civil and Spanish Wars...
...Yard is divided into three parts: grass, buildings, and paths. The grass was planted to make the Yard look green and beautiful, the buildings were built to hold recitations and students; and the paths, or places where there is no grass, were made to connect all the buildings, so that students could go from building to building easily. Some students don't know these things. They think that the grass was planted to prevent sore feet from walking on the hard paths. And they don't know that it is a sign of mental weakness to change their minds when...
Entries, accompanied by a fee of $1 may be sent to Mr. Richard Bishop, 1569 Beacon street, Brookline, up to 4 o'clock on June 9. The tournament will be played on grass courts and matches will begin daily at 3 o'clock. Prizes will be awarded the winner and the runner-up. All matches will be best two in three sets, except the challenge match, which will be best three in five sets...
...Even the verdant green of the terra firma and the bingle of the bat on the ball are sometimes treacherous signs of the love-making season, but who can question the authority of the appearance of the hay lids? The weather man has promised a glorious day for the grass helmets on Saturday, and -- besides--the goals are hungry for that old brown derby...
...like a sidewalk and curb. On these are to be built wood benches with a back, and a foot rest to raise the feet from the concrete. The outside of the embankment is to be made on a slope of one on two, covered with loam and seeded to grass. The entrance under the seats to the field itself is to be through a wide reinforced concrete tunnel made on a slope from the ground outside the embankment to the field; the entrance to the seats is to be made with smaller reinforced concrete tunnels arranged around the stands...