Word: used
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...interest which was evinced in the informal intercollegiate golf contests held at Ardsley Casino a short time ago leads me to write this letter in regard to a possible intercollegiate championship golf match next summer. The Ardsley Casino will be glad to offer the use of their links for a college championship at any time next summer which may be agreeable to the colleges. And we shall be glad to offer prizes appropriate to that important occasion...
...Hutton '95 was the first speaker. He emphasized the importance of the present debate in that the Princeton men, although at first unused to the Harvard system of debating, had taken advantage of it and were now quite expert in its use. He was followed by J. P. Warren '96. Mr. Warrer laid emphasis on the fact that Harvard's supremacy in debating is acknowleged, but that if she is to retain that supremacy she must follow the recent defeat by Yale with victories...
...good a game as fives should be ignored is a matter not only of regret, but of surprise. A careful enquiry has convinced me that not one man in three knows that the courts exist; and even those who do know it have never expressed their desire to use them...
...courts were built to give the baseball men a chance to keep in training during the winter months. Certainly no game is better adapted to cultivate agility and endurance. During the present winter, however, I have never found anybody in them, though I have used them almost daily; and it does not appear that that they have ever been used to any extent, except perhaps in the spring. Even those men who do use them apparently do not understand the game. The so called "pepper boxes" which add so much to the interest and excitement of the sport have recently...
...which would cover all expenses at a very moderate cost to each member. If, as seems likely, the game becomes appreciated in the course of time, other courts could be built at no great expense. At Eton, where the game originated, a body of a thousand students finds constant use for fifty courts, even during the football season. At Harvard, where there are no out-door games to detract from the sport, its popularity should certainly be equally great. I can not believe that men take to pulley weights, dumb-bells, rowing machines, and Dr. Sargent's wands by preference...