Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Porter, '84; foot-ball kick, 157 ft. 2 in., by Terry, '85; throwing base-ball, 323 ft., by Newell, '83; Scientific; broad jump, 17 ft. 3 in., by Smith, '83; high jump, 17 ft. 3 in., by Smith, '83; high jump, 5 ft. 3 1/4 in., by Dodge, '85. Lawn tennis was tied by three. The tug-of-war was won by the class...
...Lawn tennis players are improving the pleasant weather. Holmes and Jarvis fields present a lively appearance...
...Lawn tennis is booming at Cornell. A new association has been formed and many new members admitted. An association also exists among the professors of that college...
...will be about a mile from the campus, and will be easily accessible by the horse cars, which will run direct to the gates. The grounds cost $21,000. They will contain several large buildings for bath and dressing rooms, fitted up with all conveniences, a quarter-mile track, lawn tennis courts, base-ball, foot-ball, lacrosse and cricket grounds. There will also be a grand stand accommodating one thousand spectators, which will be erected at a cost of $5000. Yale is to be congratulated on her good fortune...
...Lawn Tennis Association has once more given a conclusive proof of its inability to answer the needs of the mass of players now in college. In spite of the lengthy discussion of last spring about the feasibility of a more equitable distribution of courts, when the occasion for action arrives the executive of the association simply folds its hands and lets matters frame their own course. So long as they themselves are well provided for, why should they bother about other people's affairs, and if they themselves are successful in getting or keeping hold of desirable courts, why should...