Word: court
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Lawn Tennis Association has once more given a conclusive proof of its inability to answer the needs of the mass of players now in college. In spite of the lengthy discussion of last spring about the feasibility of a more equitable distribution of courts, when the occasion for action arrives the executive of the association simply folds its hands and lets matters frame their own course. So long as they themselves are well provided for, why should they bother about other people's affairs, and if they themselves are successful in getting or keeping hold of desirable courts, why should...
...power of a majority of the society to vote its property to themselves or to any one of their number. The defendants' counsel urged chiefly that the bill should be dismissed because it was too frivolous to be entitled to the attention of the court. This view the counsel on the other side contested, urging that the object of the suit was an article of special and particular value, and that the suitors, both in age and intelligence, were entitled to the respect of the court. Decision was reserved...
...contest for the championship at Wimbledon. It seems a very great pity that so many alterations are made in the game. The end will be to spoil it. This lowering of the net was not at all desirable. The height kept down the experiments in overhand serving. - [London Court Journal...
...month, it was decided to lower the nets at the posts from 4 feet to 3 feet 6 inches. The decision was arrived at after discussion, in hopes of discouraging the volleying which has to a great extent taken the place of the return from the back of the court after the first bound of the ball. The effect will be to give a player who can place the return more opportunity of playing the ball on one or the other side of an antagonist who stands in the middle of the court prepared to volley...
...Trinity College students who were "hazed" by members of the senior class last April, prosecutions were brought against the thirteen students who were suspended by the faculty, and who have recently returned to Hartford. There was a special hearing in the case in the Supreme Court Wednesday. The offending students pleaded nolle contendere, and were fined $10 each and costs...