Word: courting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...SEARS will play in the Boston Court Tennis Tournament...
...teams, and they secured easy victories over the teams from the Boston Fusiliers and the Chelsea Rifles. The drill of the Providence Bicycle Club was most novel and pleasing; but the polo on skates was not amusing; nor was the tennis, which was played in a court much shorter than the regulation length, thus preventing any skilful plays, as the contestants had all been practising in courts of the usual dimensions. The conduct of the crowd in hissing the tug-of-war team from the Institute of Technology, which was pulling against the Jamaica Plain Boat Club Team, showed...
...indeed, seem that, according to this, a man might hold a court for seven years while he goes through College and the Law School; and that, since the number of courts is limited, some men would be unable to get any court at all, or, at any rate, have to put up with an exceedingly poor one. This does at first appear a little hard on new-comers, but it would be little different from the system pursued in the matter of College rooms. And in fact, does it not seem that when a student who has occupied a room...
...therefore, of the opinion that a man's claim to a court which he has laid out should last from season to season as long as he is in College, provided that he puts in his claim within a reasonable time after the opening of the tennis season. Should any tennis season intervene during which he does not use the court, his claim should be void. No transfer of courts should be allowed. The courts left vacant each season should be drawn for by lot under the direction of a committee elected by the tennis players from among themselves, this...
...Explain as I might, when brought to the Court of Inquiry, it was very evident to the Judge that I was guilty, and I was only set free on receipt of a very large sum as bail...