Word: court
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Leonard and Warland took the net as usual, and kept their opponents in the back court throughout the entire match. Their net game was steady and accurate, and they covered the court well, seldom allowing their opponents to pass them. The match was won by excellent team work and hard smashing...
...first Derby and Herrick attempted to hold the net, but they were continually forced into the back court by their opponents' superior volleying. In the second set they played from the back court, and won by their effective base line game. Their lobs and swift low ground strokes were well executed and hard to control at the net. They lost the match through their inability to reach the net, and their erratic work in the back-court...
...Derby 3L. and R. W. Herrick '04 defeated F. J. Goodridge 4M., and C. A. Barrows 4M., 3-6, 6-3, 6-3. Derby and Herrick played a faster game, especially at the net, than they had done before in the tournament. Goodridge and Barrows covered the court well, but were unable to win out against their opponents' brilliant net play. Derby and Herrick had previously defeated L. E. More '03 and C. Fischel...
Yale's bicentennial celebration was concluded yesterday. The closing exercises, held in the Hyperion Theatre, consisted of a commemorative poem by E. C. Stedman, and a Greek festival hymn, both composed for the occasion, together with a commemorative address delivered by Justice Brewer of the Supreme Court...
...United States; William Watson Goodwin, professor of Greek Literature in Harvard University; Charles Eliot Norton, professor of the history of art, emeritus, in Harvard University; James Coolidge Carter, for many years president of the New York Bar Association; Joseph Hodges Choate, ambassador of the United States at the Court of St. James; Henry Lee Higginson, fellow of Harvard University; Richard Olney, former Secretary of State; Whitelaw Reid, editor of the New York Tribune; James Bradley Thayer, professor of law in Harvard University; Charles William Dabney, president of the University of Tennessee; Horace Howard Furness, editor of the Variorum edition...