Word: close
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Tallant, on the other hand, played a strong, steady game through-out, and Lee's play was especially noticeable in this respect. Snow played the most brilliant game, while Tailor's underhand strokes were very effective, and Lee and Tallant did some good placing. All four men played close to the net and volleyed a great deal. In the second set Tailer and Snow tried lobbing over their opponents' heads with good effect, but in the third most of the play was again near the middle of the court. The score by sets...
...With the close of the present college year will end necessarily the connection of a large number of men with the Glee Club. Eighty-eight has been a very musical class, and nowhere has this been better shown than in the fact that during the past year the first bass part of the Glee Club has been composed entirely of seniors. Honore, Ewald, Mason, Saxe and Swarts have made us a very strong part. These men, with G. H. Carpenter in the second bass, Howard, Balch, Pope and B. Carpenter in the second tenor, and Lund and Barry...
...little annoyance was caused yesterday because the authorities saw fit to close the Library and Gymnasium. The inconvenience of those who wished to use the Library was particularly great. A large number of men who thought of course the Library would be open as usual, expected to do a day's work for the examinations. Why the library should be shut on a day when many men would certainly desire to use the books is a little hard to see. To view the matter most charitably, the authorities showed a blameworthy thoughtlessness in depriving men of the aid they need...
...hold the matter in abeyance for one week. Should the faculty refuse to reconsider the matter, all college athletics will have to be dropped. The boat races will come off as usual, as the college has no jurisdiction in the matter, because the race takes place after the close of the college term...
...miles with turn, in which there were three entries: (1) C. Greene, '89, and Vaughan, '90; (2) Townsend, '89, and Holder, '88; (3) Deblois, '89, and Marquand, '89. The race was well contested, Greene and Vaughan winning in 11m. 8 1-2s. Townsend and Holder were a close second...