Word: court
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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When in the lower forms at Eton, says a recent English magazine, Gladstone had little severe experience in fagging, and afterward treated his own fags very leniently. One of Gladstone's fags, John Smith Mansfield, now a police magistrate at the Marlborough-street Court, says of him: "He was not exacting, and I had an easy time of it. I cannot remember doing anything more than laying out his breakfast and tea table, and occasionally doing an errand. I recall him as a good-looking, rather delicate youth with a pale face and brown, curling hair - always tidy, and well...
...fact is that our tennis courts are, as a rule, so poor that it is possible to play a satisfactory game on a particular court only after having got used to the inequalities of the ground. No one, therefore, who cares at all for tennis as a scientific game would make a practice of playing on the college grounds, as is now so largely done by many of the most assiduous players, as they could not be sure of being able to use the same court each...
Wanted-To purchase or rent a tennis court. Address 47 Thayer...
...genuine "no popery riot" has occurred at Oxford. The facts are these: On a Saturday night near the end of February, a dignified emissary of the papal court, and the accredited representative of the Romish propaganda of the university, Mr. Grissell, who is a graduate of Brasenose, and is said to have been making converts in that college, visited the rooms of his prospective followers, and had just seated himself for "a quiet rubber" with a few men from other colleges, when they were serenaded by a large portion of the college in the quadrangle below, amid cries...
...library should be devoted to the founding of a "schoale or colledge," to rear up both white and Indian boys, "in knowledge ande godlynes" This was more than generosity, in the state of affairs at that time - it was the greatest liberality. In 1637, the year previous, the court had appointed twelve men "to take order for a colledge at Newetowne," but the poverty and unsettled condition of the times were such, that it would have been impossible for those appointed to have succeeded in their design had not this humble stranger, out of his scanty resources, given twice...