Word: racket
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...more will the Harvard student homeward bound with his bulging suitcase, his rattling golf sticks, his tennis racket, and proverbial musical instrument, be seen tearing frantically through the human swarm on Summer street. No more will he have to perform superhuman feats of line-plunging, of long distance running, of athletic leaping over intervening horses, wagons, and automobiles, only to arrive as the last car of his train rolls majestically from the South Station. The great work is complete at last; science is vindicated. The oldest Senior who said gloomily that it would never be finished is a prophet without...
...been played, since 1914, appears on the schedule again this season. In 1914 the University team lost its match with Leland Stanford. The Californians will bring a formidable team again this year, since Van Johns will be one of its members. Johns is considered one of the best racket men on the Pacific coast, and is ranked with the ten best players in the country...