Word: courting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...dark cowls; and in the midst of them rides a gorgeous Cardinal, the papal legate sent in honor of the occasion. The Prince and his spouse, Princess Beatrice, magnificently arranged in brocade and blue velvet, ride by under a canopy, escorted by the noble ladies and gentlemen of the court, among whom the court fool, mounted on a frisky ass, plunges recklessly about. A group of students and professors are followed by a huge car, a sort of exalted chariot, on which sit five beautiful young girls, representing Ruperto Carola, Piety, Wisdom, Justice, Truth. This ends the first division...
...oaken desk and reading his ponderous tome as quietly and attentively as he did three hundred years ago; and Melancthon, with his robes about him, is expounding some knotty point of doctrine to the grave monk beside him. The end of the sixteenth century finds the gay court at its gayest. There are splendid cars with Ceres, Bacchus, Venus, sitting on them, while vineyard laborers, with grape-laden baskets, dance about them. Then comes Sileuns, reeling from his ass and surrounded by a fantastic bevy of mymphs satyrs, demons, goblins and bats. We move forward to the 13th of June...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - I wish to call the attention of the Directors of the Tennis Association, which I believe have charge of the tennis courts on Holmes Field, to the very great annoyance which arises from the want of back nets. The courts lie close together facing in every direction, so that a swift ball from one court will often roll through two or three others, causing great inconvenience to the players. The money for the back nets could no doubt easily be collected from those who play there frequently, as they would thus be saved the expense and inconvenience...
...head of the 'world's' players by an English authority, and judging by present tendencies there will be several more Harvard men to back up his reputation. We have unusual facilities for field tennis in Harvard, but could not an arrangement be made for some sort of a racquet court, where the more skill-requiring game of court tennis could be played. It might be under the auspices of the H. A. A., or the work of a private organization, to be opened to public use afterward, on payment of rent, just as the courts on Holmes are paid...
...club for this year will be composed as follows: Supreme Court, Davis, '85, Cowles, '85, (Oberlin), Gale, '84, (Yale), Hobbs, '85, Goodale, '85, Trask, '85, Storrow, '85, and W. Williams, '84, (Yale), W. C. Smith, '85; Superior Court, Anderson, '86, (Yale), T. J. Coolidge, '84, Codman, '86. Merriam, '86, R. D. Smith, '86, Hansen, '85, Nutter, '85, Sanford, '85. Messrs. Hobbs and Merriam will act as clerks of their respective courts...