Word: courting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...decision of the supreme court of New York holds that the Polo Grounds are the property of the city, and declares that the park commissioners have a right to destroy the fences as soon as they please. Owing to legal technicalities, however, nothing is likely to be done for at least a year...
...work last week in the gymnasium. The candidates are not very numerous, but the material, on the whole, is very promising. In Mercer Hall a substitute has been found for the old cage in the gymnasium. At a trifling expense it has been turned into a first-class handball court. It affords a good place for battery practice...
...Yale Alumni Association of Boston and vicinity will hold its annual dinner on Wednesday, January 30, at 5 p. m., at Young's Hotel. Dinner will be served promptly at 6 p. m. Hon. W. A. Field and Hon. M. P. Knowlton of the Supreme Court, Walter Quincy Scott, D. D., of Phillips Exeter Academy, Arthur T. Hadley, M. A., of New Haven, and others have been invited and are expected to be present. A business meeting will be held during the evening. In order to make the occasion as social and informal as possible, songs will be sung...
...weekly moot court at the Law School will be held this afternoon at 3 o'clock. The case will be argued before Professor Thayer. McCordic and Buck will speak for the plaintiff; Ruel and Pearson for the defendant...
...almost entirely confined to the gymnasium. Princeton will suffer a great many disadvantages from the loss of the cage, which was destroyed by storm last Commencement, and which was expected to be of such service, especially in batting. Mercer Hall has been engaged as a partial substitute, and a court for hand-ball practice has been there fitted up. This will be a good place for battery practice, but the space is too cramped to allow any batting. It is likely that Irwin of the Philadelphia team will be engaged to coach the nine. Among the candidates are Ames, King...