Word: shack
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Back nets have appeared on Holmes field, and the heart of the tennis player is glad, while the "shack" wanders disconsolately through the yard. His reign has been brought to a sudden end by the awakening of the Tennis Association. We extend our thanks to that worthy institution...
...newsboys who frequent the outskirts of Memorial Hall are becoming as great a nuisance as their friends and allies, the shacks. In fact, the newsboy plague is further reaching than the shack pest, for a shack will not attack a man who does not carry a racket, whereas the newsboys pursue everybody they see. Even when a victim waves in the air his already purchased paper, the newsboy still persists. If the number of boys was reduced to three or four, and these remained at the hall, just as many papers would be sold, and the walk to breakfast...
...back nets on the tennis grounds. The three courts in the corner of Holmes which have them, have given proof of the practicability of the scheme, and if the Tennis Association will not furnish nets, will it not, at least, tell why? Again, if we must still suffer the "shack" system, will not the Association repeat its good work of last season and establish a fixed rate? Answers to these questions would be acceptable to more than...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - The ball of anti-shackism has been started and should be kept rolling till it comes down hard on the heads of the present lords of creation. Shack insolence is something apalling. If netting is not forthcoming, why not organize the present shacks into something of a cash-boy system in charge of the field man? Numbered badges would make the identity of offenders easy, while any system would thin out worthless material and do away with the present insolence of the little fellows. He who prefers his game without shack accompaniment would be in peace while...
...Advocate has made a timely suggestion which we would heartily second. Some means should be taken at once to do away with the present abominable "shack" system. It is as much as one's life is worth to try to escape from the army of small fiends who besiege the expectant tennis-player with cries of "Shack, mister," or "Say, mister, I'll shack yer fur fi' cents." Indeed, it it almost impossible to play on crowded Jarvis without "shacks" to watch the balls. It is admitted by one and all that this system is a very obnoxious...