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...object of the Association in securing the ground was not to obtain the exclusive interest, but the controlling interest in the regulation and care of the ground. If the Lacrosse Association controlled the ground, the occupants of the tennis courts would have the use of the field except between the hours of four and six in the afternoon; by this means both games could be played on the same ground, and any outlay or expenditure could be shared proportionally...
...purpose, says ???, "to make a comparison between these two games." If he had made the comparison, he would have seen how much the radical difference in their nature affects the present point of dispute. Lacrosse, like every other college game, except tennis, needs but a single field of fixed dimensions. To tennis, as a whole, there are no limits, except the limits set by the number of students in the College; for one or two courts are not tennis. Take away twenty of the courts on the fields, and tennis would still be a game at Harvard. The present question...
Gold best-on-record medals will be given to any one beating the best American College record at any of the events except the 1-5-mile hurdle...
...beautiful September weather made him very anxious to attempt it. I was less eager, for obvious reasons. We started off in the afternoon. Edith came to the doorway just as we took the road. We looked back, and she waved her hand at us. It was the last time - except once...
...disappearance of his room-mate - which no one has ever yet accounted for, except to suppose that the poor fellow met an accidental death on the night in question - worked upon him in such a manner that the very sad result ensued. I see by reading his account of the matter that, with the wonderful precision and clearness which insanity sometimes attains, he has given a very clear account of all that happened up to the time of that terrible outbreak on Red Hill. There he burst forth a raving madman. What might have happened had not two other pedestrians...