Word: asphalt
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...hand-ball courts have been built behind the Gymnasium. They are the same size as the old ones and with them entirely enclose the asphalt pavement...
...match in the Gymnasium, in order that the men here may understand the game better. Two games can be played at the same time in the Gymnasium, one on the floor and one in the cage, while in good weather a third field can be laid out on the asphalt court back of the Gymnasium. Though no regular teams have as yet been organized, scrub teams play every afternoon. Dr. Sargent does not wish to have any games arranged with outside teams until the men understand better how to play...
Work on the new handball courts in the rear of the Hemenway Gymnasium is well under way. There will be eight of these courts, four on each side of the asphalt yard. In all probability two of them will be specially reserved for the use of the 'Varsity baseball pitchers, while the other six will be public. The concrete flooring of the yard will be retained. A high plank wall has nearly been finished on the west side of the yard and another is to be erected on the east side...
Through the generosity of graduates ten handball courts are to be put up this week on the asphalt court behind the gymnasium. The fence at each end of the asphalt court is to be replaced by a wooden wall twelve feet high and one foot thick. Five handball courts, each fifteen feet wide, are then to be walled off along the ends. Two of these courts will be used by the baseball pichers, but the rest will be free to any one who may wish to play in them. The present overcrowded state of the indoor courts and the fact...
...candidates for the lacrosse team have been prevented from regular field practice for some time owing to the cold weather. The squad work on the asphalt or in the Gymnasium, however, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Since the holidays most of last year's men have been resting, only the new candidates coming out every day. No regular games have been scheduled yet for the spring but scrub games will be played as soon as the ground becomes soft enough...