Word: bespoken
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...correspondent hinted in his recent communication on the subject, the Cricket Club, is in need of more substantial support from the members of the university. New grounds near Felton Hall have been bespoken, but the rent, cost of ploughing, harrowing, sodding, rolling, watering and other expenses must be defrayed. Several matches have already been arranged with the Longwood and other local clubs, and also with the University of Pennsylvania. Now, if the University of Pennsylvania sends a team to Cambridge, the Clicket Club must pay one half of their expenses, besides the cost of entertaining them in a fitting manner...
...putting new lockers in order to satisfy the ever-increasing want. All this time there are a great many lockers on the upper floor, and these are, as everyone knows, the most desirable lockers, which have been lying vacant ever since the beginning of the term. They have been bespoken by members of the university, and will undoubtedly be paid for, so that the management of the gymnasium cannot be blamed for the present state of things. The proprietors of these lockers do not occupy them themselves, they do not even take the trouble to lock them; and the result...