Word: useful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...case that ten or fifteen reporters were obliged to score the game without having the slightest conveniences for their work. We hope that the management will not allow this state of affairs to continue another year. One at least, if not two, additional tables should be furnished for the use of the scorers. We speak of the matter thus early in order that plenty of time may be had for making the needed improvements...
...meet the expenses of the coming war with England. They were mostly in sums of $100. and were never intended for general circulation; but this action of the treasury established a deplorable precedent, which those in favor of paper money in later years did not fail to make use of. Up to 1861, all attempts to make paper money a legal tender were indignantly rejected by congress. But the breaking out of the Civil War made such action both just and necessary...
...Yale freshman shell, built by Waters, of Troy, has been delivered at the boat house. The most noticeable points are that it is heavier, broader and deeper than the university boats, and has rather short outboards. It is rigged with gear which Appleton, '86, invented for use on the university boat, and with metal runners on wooden slides. The price...
LAWN TENNIS.- The dirt courts on Holmes and Jarvis fields are now ready for use. Season tickets for the remainder of the college year, and coupon tickets at 20 per cent. less than cash prices, may be obtained at the Co-operative Society store...
...There are no new men who show any promise of ever developing into fast runners. McGuire, '90, who had quite a reputation as a runner before he came to college, but who has devoted his collegiate course to gaining high academic honors, has finally cosented, after much urging, to use his athletic abilities for the benefit of the university. He will be a valuable acquisition. Trainer Murphy has been hard at work with the men, and they have been making rapid progress, especially in starting...