Word: roll
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...secretary of the Tennis Association will be at 4, Little's block, on Tuesday and Wednesday, of this week, from 11 A. M., till 12. Thirty courts have been obtained. The association is in need of prompt payment of assessments to mark and roll these courts...
...January merit roll at West Point, Alexander, the colored cadet from Ohio, stood ninth in a class of one hundred...
...feeling caused by this interference of the college faculties was apparent. If professional trainers could not be employed, the spirit of college athletics would be rooted out, for while the association did not believe in much professionalism, a little was indispensable. It was then decided to call the roll of the colleges represented and ascertain the general feeling. Amherst's representative stated that he had been instructed to oppose the resolutions of the college faculties as a whole, but one section-that which allowed students only the four years of college or university in which to take part...
...known as "Sore-heads," men who are expected to be elected members of one or the other of the societies last year, but were not, and were now ashamed to vote for their suppression. An important point gained by the society men was in securing a vote by roll call, as many who in secret ballot would have voted for the resolution did not dare to do so openly. After a stormy discussion of two hours, through which the society men protracted it, thereby tiring their opponents, the resolution was defeated by only a very small majority...
...dining or great hall, quadrangle and dormitories. Balliol and Merton divide the honor of being the oldest colleges, as the former was founded in 1260 and the latter four years afterward. The examinations for entrance to Balliol are unusually "stiff" and her graduates generally rank high upon the honor-roll in the university examinations. Merton boasts of the finest chapel, the choir and stained-glass being particularly good, and it is of this college that Dr. Harvey, the discoverer of the circulation of the blood, was warden. Oriel, founded in 1324, ranks next in antiquity and has always been marked...