Word: persons
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Prospect Park, Brooklyn, has now the largest tennis ground of the country. During the past summer, 160 courts were laid out and 250 permits were granted to clubs and parties who wished to play. These permits are granted to any respectable person applying for them, the players supplying the implements of the game except in some cases, the net. Lockers are provided for both ladies and gentlemen in the picture house, and no charge is made for using them...
...have received a communication from a person signing himself "Harvard Graduate" calling us to account for our supposed hard treatment of the freshman eleven subsequent to their defeat at Exeter, and claiming that our editorials on the subject were written in a jealous spirit of upper class men, against defenceless fresmen. We are sorry that the gentleman did not sign his real name, for he thus prevented us from publishing his letter, but we feel compelled in justice to our selves. to the college, and to Eighty-Eight in particular, to defend the position which we assumed in our previous...
...club that it hardly seems necessary to select a director to look for the interest of himself, and possibly one other man. The freshmen have shown a commendable zeal in foot ball and track athletics, and should do the same for the other sports, especially bicycling. As any person connected with the college who rides a machine can be admitted as a member of the club, we see no reason to prevent a large number of '88 men from gaining the benefits of membership by giving their names immediately to the secretary...
...that he is facile princeps at the pastime. It would certainly be more satisfactory if he played oftener in single-handed matches as a second contest with Lawford, or a set or two with Grimstead would prove very interesting to players generally. The champion appears to combine in his person all the qualifications necessary to make a grand player. Watch his play as critically as you please, and you cannot find a weak spot, Many people have an idea that W. Renshaw's strength is in his volleying and smashing, but this was entirely disproved in his match against Lawford...
...person who took volume I of "Lyell's Principles of Geology" from the heater at the Museum between the hours of 11 A. M. and 1.30 P. M., will return the same to 14 Hollis, no questions will be asked...