Word: well
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...will be but a few weeks before the courts on Holmes and Jarvis will be ready for use. That great inconvenience to players, the absence of backnets, was removed last year, but there is yet one little fault which everyone would be glad to see remedied. It is well known what a bore it is to pay in cash the man who has charge of the courts, for if one does not forgot to supply himself with money when he dresses himself for tennis playing he seldom has the right change and often finds the collector unable to assist...
Henry Bergh, the well-known friend of dumb animals, has recently died in New York...
...last meeting of the Appalachian Club, which was held on Wednesday, at the Institute of Technology, Mr. Abram G. Clark of Cambridge, the well-known manufacturer of large telescopes, was present, and gave an account of his recent visit to the observatory, telling about the views of the rings of Saturn and his discovery of a new star in the traperium of Orion...
...With this end in view, he has rented a hall near the place where the workingmen live, and holds free discussions there every Thursday evening on such subjects as the tariff, trade-unions, convict and Chinese labor, the eight hour system, and strikes. These meetings are well attended, the men show considerable intelligence, and after a little while are able to argue very well. He has, besides, regular classes in political economy, where he reads and talks to those who are interested enough to come. The men in these classes study simple books such as "Fawcets' Manual," and also have...
...take pleasure in congratulating the management of the nine on its energy in taking the initiatory steps so early in the season. It argues well for the success of our nine, and, although games may have to be abolished, there is no one who will not deem this step wise, if it is done in the interest of the 'Varsity team...