Word: courts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...LeRoy de Chaumont, father of the young gentleman who will have the honor of waiting on you with this, was the first in France who gave us credit, and before the court showed us any countenance, trusted us with 2,000 barrels of gun powder, . . . . which for want of due returns, they being of great amount, has finally much distressed him in his circumstances...
...that Jack Binks realizes that by bringing in the winning run in a Leiter Cup game on Soldiers Field he will be doing something worth while and something that people will hear about on that day he will emerge from the lounge lizard class and court those gods whose presence is felt in the sunlight, the clean wind, and the smell of turf. Either this, or he must come forth on a halter of compulsion. Compulsory exercise may not be so beneficial as that in which students indulge because of their love of sport for itself or for the opportunities...
...private soldier, is sustained throughout the entire play. A perfectly impossible plot gives the series of seven "splinters" and a "short gas attack" a slight backbone. The story centres about Old Bill's discovery of a German plot, his blowing up of the strategic bridge, and his subsequent court martial and award of the V. C. But all this is of little moment, except to hold the production together and prevent its deteriorating into vaudeville...
...some ways it is to be regretted that it became necessary to start a rival school only a few miles from Technology. The scheme of joining the engineering courses at Harvard with those at M. I. T., forbidden by the Supreme Court of this state, seemed at first thought to be much more convenient and sensible. But the University actually is in great need of a scientific school and is entirely capable of supporting one. While most of the other large universities have had such schools of their own, Harvard has individually been represented by none. While the present arrangements...
...also planned to have an informal series of basketball games in the Randolph Gymnasium court. A swimming pool, rooms for boxing and wrestling, and a lounging room complete the gymnasium's equipment...