Word: block
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...half-mile run for telegraph boys is to be one of the features of the spring meeting of a New York club. It will be a rare sight to see telegraph boys run for a longer distance than half a block...
...secretary of the tennis association will be at 4, Little's block, on Monday and Wednesday of this week from 11 till 12. Not more than half the members have paid their assessments, and this accounts for the fact that many courts are unmarked...
...school buildings are not extensive, consisting of a block of recitation rooms, an observatory, a chemical and a physical laboratory. The residence of the provost and fellows, with the dormitories, inclose a small quadrangle in the centre of which stands a bronze statue of the founder. The chapel is a good gothic structure, and the library is well supplied with the usual amount of manuscripts, etc. There is, however, another library for the use of the boys, the first being too valuable for schoolboy use. Like all English schools, Eton boasts of a long list of celebrated graduates, too long...
...tennis association has had twenty-six courts rolled and marked. This leaves only a few dollars in the treasury. Members have been very much behind hand in paying their assessments, and accordingly no more courts can be marked at present. The secretary will be at 4 Little's block, from 11 till 12 on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, and members are reminded that they are not entitled to play tennis until they have paid their dues...
...secretary of the Tennis Association will be at 4, Little's block, on Tuesday and Wednesday, of this week, from 11 A. M., till 12. Thirty courts have been obtained. The association is in need of prompt payment of assessments to mark and roll these courts...