Word: lawn
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...exception of Mr. Wilkie Collins, nobody will agree with me when I say that our boys of the upper and middle classes, between the ages of fourteen and eighteen years, pass a great deal too much of their time at play. By play I mean rowing, cricket, foot ball, lawn tennis, and other athletic exercises generally. Athletic training turns out thousands of brave, brawny, healthy young Englishmen, who are utterly unable to earn their own living at home, and who, if they emigrated, could, as a means of support, only look to manual labor, in which they would have...
...Harvard representatives at the intercollegiate Lawn Tennis tournament deserve great credit for their success in the doubles as they had played together but once before going to Hartford...
...lawn tennis tournament for the college championship will begin on Monday next, October 15th. Entries close at Bartlett's on Saturday, Oct. 13. Entrance fee for singles $1.60 ; for doubles $2.00. No one will be allowed to play in the tournament who has not paid his annual assessment of 50 cents. Players may be called upon to play two rounds on the same...
...lawn tennis tournament for the college championship will begin on Monday next, October 15th. Entries close at Bartlett's on Saturday, Oct. 13. Entrance fee for singles $1.00 ; for doubles $2.00. No one will be allowed to play in the tournament who has not paid his annual assessment of 50 cents. Players may be called upon to play two rounds on the same...
...second tournament of the InterCollegiate Lawn Tennis Association will be played on the grounds of the Retreat in Hartford, under the auspices of the Trinity College Association, beginning to-day at 3 o'clock. The colleges to be represented are Amherst, Brown, Harvard, Trinity, Williams, Wesleyan and Yale-each by a pair and one or two single players...