Word: grounding
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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...room on the ground floor of Phillips Brooks House has been fitted up as a study for the use of members of the University, and furnished with a small stock of good literature. For the present the study will be open from 9 a. m. to 9 p. m., except on evenings when the room is needed by one of the organizations using the house...
...past month, been attempting to carry a bill in the State Legislature, asking that the College property be assessed for its full value of over $10,000,000 and that this tax be paid to Cambridge out of the State treasury. This is justified, it is argued, on the ground that about 40 per cent. of Harvard men live in Massachusetts and enjoy the municipal advantages and improvements of Cambridge. The principle of this plan has a great significance since it will acknowledge the justice of taxing college property and will be a step toward direct and complete taxation...
...this location, on the other hand, is distinctly outside the charmed circle of College activities. It is "across the street" from everywhere. We want our Union within the fence if possible, and in a position that will be worthy of it. One such precious site is still open, --the ground just south of Sever Hall. The private houses situated there at present need not interfere seriously with the proposed building. The ample space and the rising of the ground, would show off any fine building to splendid advantage. Though in reality not far from the Quincy street site, to which...
...were held at six o'clock and attendance upon them was enforced by requiring the payment of money for any delinquency. Immediately after prayers the students proceeded to their recitations before breakfast, which was served at half-past seven o'clock. This order of exercises was justified on the ground that it was important that the undergraduates should not only be roused from their beds, but called to some intellectual exertion at an early hour; and that a recitation immediately after rising in the morning was the best security for the proper employment of the previous evening. One result...
...University receives a large annual rent, and, consequently, there is a strong economic reason why the building ought not to be destroyed in order to afford a site for a club which will pay only a nominal rent. As to Wadsworth House,-- historical associations so surround it and the ground it is on, that a proposal to replace the old building with the new club would not be considered. Adjoining Wadsworth House on the east is ground which is as centrally located as any of the "impossible" sites that have been proposed. It is about equally distant from the dormitories...