Word: poole
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...baseball management announces that season tickets are on sale at the usual place opposite Boylston Hall. I would like to ask why the headquarters for Harvard University athletics cannot be located in some other place than a tobacco store with its billiard and pool connections. The associations of such a place are very distasteful to many of us, but at present there is no other office where we can secure tickets for the games, or obtain information about many of the events of the college year. If other stores of a different character are unwilling to grant this privilege...
...last been opened to the students. The building has been fitted up with an indoor tennis court made by Wilson and Silsby, the famous sail makers of Boston, and also has two excellent bowling alleys. It is the purpose of the committee in charge to place shuffle boards and pool and billiard tables in the building and, if possible, to fit up a handball court. The tennis court is said to be the finest indoor court in the country and the greatest care has been taken in the selection and construction of all the apparatus in the building...
...draw the members of the different departments into closer contact with each other and as in the plan for the Harvard organization this end is obtained by providing certain definite conveniences to the members. Among these may be mentioned a reading-room and library, bowling alleys, billiard and pool tables, baths and lockers, and offices and headquarters for college publications...
...Canadian Intercollegiate Association in regard to the return international match to be played in Canada next summer. Last July the first international intercollegiate match was played in Philadelphia, resulting in a victory for the Americans. The Harvard players that took part were P. H. Clark '96, E. L. Pool '95, and H. H. Richardson...
...Pooling is a positive evil.- (a) Pooling tends to deprive the public of the benefits of improvement in the R. R. service: J. F. Hudson, Railways and the Republic, p. 229.- (i) A road will get from the pool its alloted share of patronage whether it affords the best or the poorest service to the public.- (b) Pooling causes an artificial maintenance of rates, which stimulate the construction of parallel and competing lines: Select Senate Comm. Rept. on Inter-State Commerce, Evidence, pp. 888, 1295, 127.- (c) Pools tend to increase the frequency and violence of Railway wars: Hudson...