Word: nets
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...semi-finals of the singles yesterday, G. L. Wrenn beat A. Ingraham, 6-3, 6-1, and J. B. Read beat A. S. Pier, 4-6, 10-8, 8-6. The latter match showed some very pretty tennis. In the first set Read started in to play net, but though he did some very clever work there, the swift drives of Pier forced him back. In the last two sets Pier's strokes became slower, and every point was hard fought. Read began to lob steadily and accurately, and the weakness which Pier showed against this style of play finally...
...Yale Financial Union has authorized its treasurer to expend, for the purpose of sending an athletic team to Oxford, twelve hundred dollars in case six men go or fifteen hundred dollars in case seven men go. The Union will in return receive one third of the net receipts of the games, the remainder to be divided equally between Oxford and the Queen's Club, on whose grounds the meeting will take place...
...which the games here have been supported is a disgrace to the class. The crowd yesterday was very small, and the net proceeds from the game amounted to just a dollar and a half. The team will end the season hundreds of dollars in debt...
...rent of a room in Vanderbilt $360. The university will consequently, according to these figures, realize $24,840 a year from Vanderbilt Hall. To heat, light and care for this building will cost the university considerably less than $3000 a year. It would be safe to say that the net profit from the dormitory will be $22,000 a year. It is understood that Vanderbilt Hall in its present unfinished condition has cost over...
...Medical School. James P. Putnam, M. D., and William T. Porter, M. D., have been appointed to the Faculy to fill the places left vacant by the withdrawal of Samuel J. Mixter, M. D., and William H. Howell, M. D. There are eighteen new instructors with a net gain of ten. Two new scholarships-the Claudius M. Jones and Orlando W. Doe-have been announced. The first has an income of $250, the second...