Word: layed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...communication upon the tennis courts of the college, which we print this morning contains a suggestion which it would be well to heed. All tennis players know how unsatisfactory a court is for practice, which is neither turf nor gravel. If the association could only afford to lay out clay courts, the results would undoubtedly be perfectly satisfactory. As it is, the best thing that can be done is to remove the ragged tufts of grass, and make the courts over into smooth earthen floors...
...investigating this trick, the hounds once more took up the scent on Concord Avenue to the Arsenal, where they all had to take the high picket fence, Across fields and roads, up Bowdoin, Linnean and Raymond street. to the redolent settlement in North Cambridge, called "Dublin," the chase lay clear enough. Then over the railroad and up the avenue, and finally toward the old Somerville powder house. Here the hounds were again at fault in a large open field. The scent regained, they wandered about the low country lying between Tufts College and winter Hill, over fences and railroad banks...
...class officers shall be elected in the following order : Secretary, First Marshal, Second Marshal, Third Marshal, Orator, Poet, Odist, Lay Orator, Chorister, Class Day Committee, Class Committee. The committee have appointed tellers, whose names will be published before the meeting...
...Matthews to see the start, and the hares, S. Abbot, '87, and F. B. Lind, '88, were sent off by the timekeeper, Mr. F. Remington, '87. Seven minutes later the hounds eleven in number, with Brandt, '85, the master of hounds at their head, started in pursuit. The scent lay across the common, up Concord Avenue, over fields and fences near the Cambridge reservoir, and then along the south end of Fresh Pond. Once or twice the scent was badly scattered and some delay ensued. The trail finally led around Fresh Pond toward the north, past the brick yards...
There are some things that every freshman ought to do. He ought to join the Co-operative Society, subscribe to the college papers, join the Athletic Association, and lay by of his store, that he may give freely to the University and class crews, foot ball team, nine, and lacrosse team. Then there are a number of organizations that are open virtually to any freshman who join them, and one or all of which every freshman ought to join who feels in the least qualified to do so: The Harvard Union, the two religious societies the St. Paul's (Episcopalian...