Word: availed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...association is to be praised for the excellent work it has accomplished, and every tennis player ought certainly to be enrolled among its members. Strange as it may seem, however, there are some men who prefer to avail themselves of the club's privileges without paying the merely nominal fee required. It has been decided to prevent this "dead-head" occupation of ours, that no person shall be allowed to use an association court unless prepared to show a certificate of membership, and it is hoped that this course will result both in increasing the membership of the club...
...course, there are many sub-freshmen who are studying with tutors, or are at small private schools, who will be unable to avail themselves of this arrangement, and there are, too, some men who prefer to take the examinations in Cambridge on account of the experience to be gained, and also, it is to be suspected, because they wish to learn the names of the buildings before making their appearance as full-fledged freshmen in the fall. But aside from these considerations, we should think that a man could do himself more justice by taking these examinations...
...just come to light that members of the Cambridge Bicycle Club have been in the habit of practicing on the Holmes Field track at five o'clock in the morning, a somewhat unusual hour. As no permission has been given this club to avail itself of the track, the action of some of its members would seem to exhibit a degree of "nerve" that is rather surprising...
...danger to which "future mothers and teachers of our race would be exposed by an unrestricted course of reading and study, and an intimate acquaintance as well with the heathen literature of the ancient world as with modernphysiological research;" and lastly, on the ground that the women who would avail themselves of such changes as proposed would be for the most part those training for teachers, who could not afford the expense of a university career, and whose numbers would be too small to justify any change that would bring such injury to the present system at Oxford...
...shut out from playing now ; every one has a vital interest in the welfare of the association, for every one is part of the association. In former years trouble has been caused because certain men were arbitrarily given rights to courts, while the great mass of players could only avail themselves of courts when the so-called "owners" did not wish them. All this has been done away with, and there is now no reason why any one should refrain from joining on any such ground. We repeat that we earnestly hope the notice of the need of more money...