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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Entries for the tennis tournament, beginning next Monday, close today. As neither Mr. Sears nor Mr. Clark will be in the singles and the winners of last fall's tournament are barred from the doubles, there is an unusually good chance for new players to come out. The Tennis Association in lowering the entrance fee hoped to increase the number of contestants and so awaken a more general interest. With three hundred or more tennis players in college, our tournaments ought soon to become among the best in the country...
...with another finely rowed race and victory. In all, the class has rowed six races, in three of which they have been victorious; in two races they have been second, lapping the winning boat each time, being beaten only by the fraction of a second by '81 in the fall of 1880. In their other race, that of the spring of their sophomore year, they came in third, rowing by no means a poor race, considering the circumstances On the whole, '83 has been essentially a rowing class, having shown up well both in the University crew...
...Harvard Lawn Tennis Association will give a tournament for singles and pairs, open to all members, except winners of last fall's championship tournament, on Monday, May 14th, and following days. Rules of the U. S. N. L. T. A. to govern: Best two-three sets without vantage sets, unless the players change sides at the end of every game of the odd set, when such set will be a vantage set. Finals will be best 3-5, vantage sets. All matches will be drawn by lot. A prize racket will be given in the singles, and two rackets...
...lectures by professors not regularly in its faculty. Dr. W. B. Scott, will lecture on the "Relations of Mind and Body." Drs. Patton of the seminary and Osborne of the college will also be among these lecturers. The new school will probably be in working order by next fall...
...objects the association had in view in passing the new rules in regard to the holding of courts. It is hoped that all will second heartily the endeavors of the association. By the new arrangement our tennis affairs can be brought into a systematic form this spring, and next fall the association can start on a firm basis. The rules for the tenure of courts can then be perfected and any new measures that seem advisable can be introduced...