Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Messrs. A. G. Warner, '82, H. T. Oxnard, '82, and A. L. Hall, '80, started for the mile-run. Warner soon dropped out, and Oxnard, who had kept close to Hall's heels most of the way, lost ground in trying to spurt on the last lap, and came in second. Hall's time...
...played to win last Saturday. Britannia won the toss, and played with the wind, which was blowing hard. Harvard kicked off, and the sides were so much more evenly matched than in the previous game, that the ball was kept for the most part in the middle of the ground. Before the end of the first half-hour, however, Winsor kicked a goal, - the only one scored during the game. In the last half, Britannia had only fourteen men, as P. S. Ross had been severely hurt. They did their utmost to force the ball to Harvard's goal...
...Monday several inches of snow covered the ground, but the game with McGill was commenced, and the first inning resulted in our favor, - one goal and a touchdown to nothing. Owing to the snow and cold, it was then mutually agreed by the captains not to play the second inning, but to call the game drawn. Our men reached home Tuesday morning, having been most cordially received and entertained while on their trip...
...England any ground for fearing a Russian advance on India...
...attention of the College to the exorbitant price asked for many of the rooms, - a price which not only exceeds that asked by other colleges, but which seems to follow no fixed rules. For instance, one hundred and seventy-five dollars is asked for a room on the ground-floor of Thayer, and also for one on the fourth floor. Considering the best of the rooms are cold, comfortless and undesirable, such a price is simply out of all proportion. As a result, there are now vacant nineteen rooms in this one building; for no one - not even a Freshman...