Word: courting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Never has the game been so eminently satisfactory to players and spectators, but the final touch was wanting until a meeting of the advisory committee. which constitutes a court of appeals, instead of the annual squabble over technical points, the representatives of the teams unanimously withdrew all protests that had been entered, showing most unmistakably that the rivalry of the season had been a most generous one. A few years of contest between such teams and in such a spirit will so thoroughly convince every one of the value of the sport that nothing short of the most abject folly...
Charges has been brought in the Cambridge District Court against the West End Railway Co. for an indiscriminate use of salt on the tracks...
...building is to be erected back of, and will be connected with the north corner of the gymnasium. The material used in building will be brick and the structure will be well lighted, through large glass windows in the roof. The building is to be used as a fives court and base-ball cage but will not contain a swimming pool as has been rumored. One set of plans has already been drawn up but as these have not proved acceptable another set will soon be completed...
There will be a moot court at the Law School to-morrow at three...
...decision of the court, Cornell has just lost the bequest of $1,500,000 which the wife of Prof. Fiske made. This decision is based on the fact that the law prohibits Cornell from holding an endowment of more than...