Word: round
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...intercollegiate tennis tournament yesterday the first round resulted as follows: Sears of Harvard beat Davis of Lehigh 6-5, 6-4; Taylor of Harvard beat Phelps of Amherst 6-2, 6-0; Brinley of Trinity beat Thorne of Yale 6-3, 3-6 6 4; Knapp of Yale beat Moffat of Prmceton; Hamlin of Trinity beat Danielson of Brown 6-5, 6-2 ; Conover of Princeton beat Garfield of Williams 5 6, 6-5, 6-4; Chase of Amherst beat Duryea of Williams 6-3, 6-4. Howe of Lehigh beat Richmond of Brown 6-4, 6-4. The courts...
Charles L. Colby has given a round $1,000,000 to establish a new university in Wisconsin. It was his father, Gardner Colby, who endowed Colby College, at Waterville, Maine...
...argument for going. Then again there is nothing so encouraging to the players engaged as the knowledge that some friends are present to support and cheer them. Yale always sends a good delegation to tournaments and Harvard should, if possible, do the same. The expense of the round-trip, down and back, would be about $7.00 While there the visitors are sure to receive every attention from the Trinity men so that the expenses of a stay from Tuesday to Thursday evening would be small. Everything seems to combine to make this a chance which those who are able...
...hotel a procession was formed, which marched up Fifth avenue and thence to the grounds of the college. In their midst was carried an effigy representing Legendre, the mathematician. Every now and then when the spirit moved them they groaned dismally until their destination was reached. Then they gathered round the funeral pyre and listened to a gag poem which was recited by the Harnspex of the class. He was followed by the Carnifex who offered up the burnt sacrifice and then the figure of Legendre itself. As the last semblance of the hated mathematical Gend was lost...
...wish to lend the weight of our influence to the move. The service supplied to us by the Western Union, to which company the office belongs, is certainly wretched as the regulations show. The business people and citizens of Cambridge are subject to this inconvenience all the year round, and must feel it considerably. The same is true of the body of students, who, connected with all parts of the country by family ties, are often subjected to great personal inconvenience by the delay in receiving important messages from home and from friends. Now, during the spring time, when ball...