Word: courting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...appeared to all; and it would not have seemed to be a question beyond solution. No, the 'Varsity was allowed the first choice of hours and the other clubs selected in turn the hours left unoccupied. Why cannot we adopt the same plan in the matter of our tennis courts (I use the word "our" advisedly since the courts are not private property)? Let those who hold the courts now select the hours that suit them best for using them, and let the remaining hours be taken by those who sign for them, and pay a fee towards the expenses...
Besides those men who do not claim their courts in the spring, there are numbers of men who do not use them except during a small part of the day. In fact the majority of the men use their courts only between the hours of four to six in the afternoon. Many men who do not own courts or who own poor courts are willing to play in the morning or earlier in the afternoon if they can have the use of a good court at those times. But although they may see dozens of courts unoccupied they...
...objection may be urged that under this arrangement the owner will have paid for the rolling and marking of a court for the use of strangers. Constant use will injure the court and it is not fair that the owner should pay for other people's amusement. The way of meeting this objection would be to have all the courts marked by the association at the common expense. Let every tennis player pay a certain fee for the privileges of the association, and let those privileges be limited to the members. In this way too, the marking could probably...
...first place, the rule heretofore has been that if a man once gains possession of a court, he is allowed to hold that court as long as he is connected with the university. His right to the court continues whether he plays on it regularly or only at rare intervals. If be owns the court at the close of the fall season he still has a right to the court in the spring, even if he does not play on it until June. This seems to be an unreasonable privilege. Only men should have courts who use them. The season...
Several important decisions were rendered in the United States Supreme Court yesterday...