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...select the hours that suit them best for using them, and let the remaining hours be taken by those who sign for them, and pay a fee towards the expenses of their care. But first the Tennis Association should take absolute control of all the courts, number them, keep them marked and rolled, and have a book in which the number of the courts are entered, with the names of those who use them, and the hours they are used, clearly stated. All who use the courts should pay a moderate sum to cover expenses. And those who have entered...
Class games and the rivalry between individuals is scarcely sufficient to keep men at regular work when they can be out of doors; and they are totally inadequate to induce men to go into a careful system of winter training. "Winte training" means an hour's moderate work in the gymnasium daily. The present interest in class contests, small as it is, is chiefly owing to the training they give to men who are possible candidates for the 'Varsity teams or crews. Hence the interest in them would dwindle to almost nothing, were the inter-collegiate contests abolished or materially...
...from Richardson's bat. In the seventh inning Coolidge was run into by H. B. Hall, who was trying to steal second. The result was a severe sprain of the ankle which will prevent him from playing again for three or four weeks. Lovering came in to second and Keep took Lovering's place at right. In the next inning after one run was made by the Beacons, Allen was struck by the ball and had to stop playing. His place was taken by Baker who played an excellent game. Baker's place at short was taken by Keep. Nichols...
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...there as elsewhere. The only three school periodicals which stand out as exceptionally good - the Microcosm, the Etonian, and the Miscellany - were edited by boys who possessed great firmness of character as well as genius and judgment. Canning, Mackworth, Pread, and Gladstone all knew how to recruit a staff, keep it up to the best standard of work, and prevent its members from falling out. If he had not become a statesman he might have done wonders in conducting a London daily newspaper...