Word: farness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...indoor court of the Newton Winter Tennis Club will be open for playing about December 1st. This court is the best in the country, the conditions governing out-door play being reproduced as far as possible. The floor is covered with tightly-stretched canvas painted green, and the end walls are hung with black, making a good background. At night the court is lighted by several are lights. There are also baths and dressing rooms for the players. It is hoped that more Harvard players will join this year. Names may be sent to the president or secretary...
...Library will soon have a valuable addition in the form of a general Spanish Encyclopaedia. This elaborate work, comprising twenty-five volumes, is the largest and most complete ever published. Thus far twenty volumes have been finished...
Every Tuesday and Thursday, Mr. Dohs conducts a class in fencing with foils. So far the work has consisted only in preliminary practice in attack and defence, and fair progress has been shown. Otherwise the work is done individually. There seems to be an unusually large number of good men exercising in this way. Mr. Dohs is in the gymnasium to give instruction every afternoon after two o'clock...
...building will be in line with Holworthy and parallel to Holden Chapel. The architectural design will harmonize with the surrounding buildings and when completed will be an ornament to the College grounds. Thus far $50.000 has been appropriated for its erection and it is the hope of the committee that after its completion an endowment will be left to ensure general improvements when necessary...
...object of the undertaking is to make this memorial the centre not merely of intellectual instruction, but of general hospitable influences. And now that the work is so far advanced it is earnestly hoped that the project will be furthered to the utmost by the co-operation of the students. It has been suggested that a bust of Phillips Brooks would aid greatly in impressing on the minds of visitors the original object of the building and in bringing to their memory his heart-felt sympathy and depth of interest in every branch of student life...