Word: grounding
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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Several athletic men were impressed with the idea that it would make a first rate winter sport. There are a great many days in the winter when the ground is frozen and the air bracing, and these days could be utilized by any who like the sport to go out and play a little. It is by no means necessary to have eleven men on each side. Four or five on each side can play a game and have a great deal of fun out of it. The game is excellent for the wind and develops quickness and steadiness...
...ball management offered to give the larger part of their surplus for the present year, a sum of about $6 500. Work will be begun on the new bundling at the earliest possible moment, in order that it may be ready for the foot ball team next fall. The ground floor will be divided into a kitchen, dining hall, billiard room, and club room. On the second floor will be sleeping rooms for the alumni who come to coach the different teams. It has not yet been decided in whose hands the management of the building shall be placed...
Brown University wishes to enter the New England Foot ball Association, which is now composed of Williams, Amherst, Technology, Dartmouth and Bowdoin. Dartmouth alone is probably opposed to the scheme on the ground that Providence is an out of-the-way and expensive place to play a scheduled game...
...that people try to judge themselves and past generations by the standards which they have made for themselves, and which are, accordingly, sure to be misleading. It is not difficult for a man to find fault with the deeds of his ancestors and to blame them, on the ground that every evil thought and action had transmitted its effect to him. But it does not so often happen that this man realizes how careful he should be himself to try to counteract the evil influence he may have inherited and to take good care not to add to the store...
Finally, there ought to have been some system of reserving at least part of the seats so that most of the women should not be obliged to stand, or sit on the ground A number of small sections, like those of the Jarvis field seats, would have secured to those who bought reserved seat tickets some probability of a place to sit down, and purchasers would gladly have paid extra for such tickets...