University of London Tennis Club

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    “It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic.”
    —Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)

    “The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.”
    —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)

    “Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “He loved to sit silent in a corner of his club and listen to the loud chattering of politicians, and to think how they all were in his power—how he could smite the loudest of them, were it worth his while to raise his pen for such a purpose.”
    —Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)