Word: keeps
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...search for a place to play. When the employee of the Tennis Association was informed of the intrusion, he not unnaturally hesitated about ejecting them, fearing some mistake. The Tennis Association ought, however, to be stricter in enforcing its rules, for there are more than enough Harvard men to keep the courts in use, without the help of outsiders. We mention this subject as much to rouse the sentiment of tennis players as to criticise the association. In this case at least, a proper spirit on the part of certain college men would have prevented the intrusion...
...finals, will, with class day and commencement festivities and ordeals, help to fill up the time. Ninety has but a few weeks to pass in the place that has been her happy home for nearly four years and the other classes have but a short while to keep up close friendships with the seniors soon going forth into the world. It therefore behooves all to make these last days as pleasant and as profitable as possible in order that intimacies already formed may cross the barrier of the bachelor's degree, that Ninety's memories of Harvard...
Section 4. The secretary shall keep the minutes of each meeting of the association and executive committee, and shall conduct the correspondence, and have charge of, and be responsible for, all books and papers except those of the treasurer...
...Road Horses" is a clever intermixture of the jockey, the traveller, and the essayist. "Over the Teacups," is not as good as usual. The historian of them cannot keep his hand away from the more familiar characters that in other days figured in the "Autocrat," the "Poet," and the "Professor." James Jeffrey Roche gives a poem "At Sea," evidently suggested by the death of his brother in the Samoan hurricane...
...beautiful land. Where there are no visions the people perish. It is not what a nation possesses or acquires, but it is the national idea which pervades its life. Our own country is not great by what it has, but what it dreams. It is our national ideas which keep us safe and pure...