Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...article entitled 'Lawn Tennis in America,' in the N. Y. Tribune of Sunday, Oct. 10, ranks the fifteen leading players of the country in the following order: Sears, Dwight, Beekman, Taylor, Clark, Slocum, Brinley, Mansfield, Moffat, Conover, Ripley, Glynn, Shaw, Chase, P. S. Sears...
...regard to athletics, the season was opened by the Inter Collegiate Tennis Tournament on the grounds of the New Haven Lawn Club. Trinity won first in singles and second in doubles, and Yale first in doubles and second in singles. The foot-ball team continues to practice every afternoon at the Yale Field. The team will, it is true, consist chiefly of veterans of a year's standing, yet to the ordinary observer, they appear to play with less snap and vigor than they did last year. The accidents to Hamlin and Bull of last year's eleven, are crippling...
...following officers were elected: president, G. M. Brinley of Trinity; vice-president, P. S. Sears of Harvard; and H. W. Cooley of Yale secretary and treasurer. Cornell and Columbia were formally admitted into the association. The Wright and Ditson ball was adopted, and the grounds of the New Haven Lawn Club were spoken of as the place for next year's meeting. A committee consisting of A. H. Larkin of Princeton, P. S. Sears of Harvard, and H. W. Cooley were appointed to revise the constitution, and finally a vote of thanks was tendered to the New Haven Lawn Club...
...very harassing one to men in the vicinity who are worn out by their grinding for the examinations. I refer to the workmen picking away at the brick work of Holden Chapel. The west fronts of Stoughton and Hollis are exposed to this continuous sound, beside which lawn mowers and mucker choruses are music. Cannot this work be postponed a few weeks, until men have left college? The building would be none the worse, and the students in the vicinity would be greatly accommodated...
...triangular plot of lawn about John Harvard's statue is alive with throwers of the ball every evening after supper...