Word: courting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Subject: "Resolved, That the contested elections cases of members of Congress should be tried by the Supreme Court...
...running track is constructed, encircling the entire room nine feet above the floor, having twenty laps to a mile. The floor of the track is bedded with prepared felt covered with canvas, which gives a firm elastic footing. In the floor of the gymnasium the lines of a tennis court are inlaid in white maple. All the gymnasium apparatus is arranged so as to be easily movable with pulleys, so that the floors can be cleared for tennis in a few moments...
...John Clinton Gray, lately appointed associate judge of the Court of Appeals in New York State, is a graduate of the Harvard Law School...
...question for the next debate is, "Resolved, that contested election cases of members of Congress be tried by the Supreme Court...
...definitely settled that the gift to the college of $25,000, made by H. R. A. Carey, will be devoted to the erection of a "fives court," in which the nine will be able to practice batting in addition to its present exercises in the "cage," as it will be lighted from above. The gift was accepted last fall, as Mr. Carey's decision to leave college liberated the corporation, in his case, from its policy of not accepting donations from undergraduates. It has not yet been decided just where the new building will be placed, as the authorities wish...