Word: net
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...profession. The chief difficulty is financial. The war and the accompanying business boom have undoubtedly been large influences, and the recent business slump and fall in prices may have in part offset the tendencies drawing men away from teaching. With the constant increase which is looked for in the net enrollment of our many universities, endowment campaigns can hardly provide a complete or lasting solution...
This afternoon at 4 o'clock the Freshman tennis team will meet the Worcester Academy net men at Worcester. The schoolboys have a strong, evenly balanced team but the Crimson yearlings should be able to gain the long end of the score...
...former Mercersburg tennis man; W. H. Harkness, of three years' experience at Hill; and J. M. Hopkins, an Andover veteran. Of these Crosby, whose playing is of the speedy, hard type, appears the most promising. He is exceptionally fast on his feet and difficult to evade at the net; and he showed both of these qualities last spring in the Interscholastics when he reached the semi-finals only to be put out of the running by Farnham...
Wilson Palmer '23 of Newton, has been appointed captain of the second University tennis team. His aggressive net game and fast serve are what gained him the captaincy...
...that of seeking authority to make further advances in rates, may be mentioned and then dismissed," he said. "For this expedient holds out no promise, as the rates, as a whole, have now reached a level above which certain commodities will not move, and passengers will not travel. The net effect would probably be to lose more through further curtailment in traffic than would be gained by higher charges on the traffic that must move. The second expedient is to seek further operating economies. There are opportunities in that field, but it has been and is being earnestly cultivated...