Word: set
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Last winter Miss Maude Adams and sundry collaborators made a mosaic of various passages -- now coherent and now disjointed--from Rostand's celebrated play, "Chantecler", and set them on the stage as a pretty, if somewhat tenuous and tedious fantasia. She is now bearing this amiable little entertainment up and down the country and last evening it was to be seen on the stage of the Hollis Street Theatre...
...match between E. H. Whitney '14 and Q. A. S. McKean '13 was the closest of the day. McKean won the first set with comparative ease at 6-4, and obtained a lead of 5-2, and 30-love in the next. Here, however, Whitney made a great rally, taking five games in succession and won the set 7-5. In the final set McKean was never dangerous, Whitney winning by the score...
...Russell A. Wood '03, manager of the University lacrosse team in 1903, has offered a set of twelve individual prize cups for the winning team of the series. The cups, which are on exhibition at Leavitt & Peirce's, are of silver, about five inches high, and bear the inscription "Russell A. Wood, Scrub Lacrosse Series...
...facts. The first definite steps were taken in its behalf at the Hague Conferences in 1899 and 1907. A tribunal was established to decide such international differences as did not touch the national honor or vital interests of the parties. The Declaration of London, not yet accepted, embodies a set of rules by which such international disputes shall be decided. The latest step in the same direction was taken last spring when the Taft administration opened negotiations for the peace treaties which now await ratification by the Senate. These treaties will make it binding upon the nations that sign them...
With the score 1-all in the last set Pearson and Bundy showed a burst of speed, winning the next three games through accurate lobbing on their opponents' service and terrific smashing on their own. The sixth game went to Dana and Lowrey and the seventh to Pearson and Bundy, making the score 5-2. The losers then braced, and forced the score up to 5-4, although twice within a point of losing the match. Pearson and Bundy, however, ran away with the next game on the latter's service, Pearson winning the final point with a pass...