Word: court
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...from the cup the court were wont to drink
...dungeons beneath. He gazed in silent awe at a huge tablet, not able to decipher the rude inscription. "Al lnoti ceswi llbe rem o vedf rom." "All hope abandon, ye who enter here," he might have said, had he been a member of the Dante Society. Within the outer court of this castle was another flight of stone steps, winding up to a door marked 5, presumably in reference to the five dragons within, who were very terrible beings, as little Henry soon found out. The first of these dragons was Apex, the greatest and most terrible...
From the fact that the Bursar declined to interfere in the dispute of two claimants to the same tennis court, ??? would have us believe that the President should not have interfered here. But does not the very fact that the President refused to give any claim in the first case, - for the matter was referred to him before being submitted to the Bursar, - but did give a grant in the case of the Lacrosse Association, - does not this show that Lacrosse, in his eyes, possessed a superior dignity and importance? If ??? doubted the President's power in the matter...
...President gave Captain Squibb, for a Lacrosse field, the piece of ground back of the society building and the hospital, and north of the football grounds, extending east and west for about one hundred and twenty-five yards. As this would interfere with some six or seven tennis courts, which had already been marked out before the grant of President Eliot became known, the Lacrosse Association is willing to come to a compromise with the tennis men and agree upon a time to use the ground. If the Lacrosse Team can have the ground from four to five...
...become thoroughly convinced that there were other modes of transit, less rapid, perhaps, but quite as agreeable as sliding across a rough floor on the bridge of one's nose. The ordinary Sophomore would, at this point, have bid a tearful adieu to so questionable a form of amusement, court-plastered his nose, and forthwith presented at No. 5 a petition to be excused from giving any further attention to college duties, except tennis and the Greek play...