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...editorial in the last Crimson criticises in many points the measures taken by the Tennis Association, though admitting that on the whole the action of the association was well advised. In view of the statement made by the association in last Saturday's HERALD, much of the criticism is uncalled for, but as that article was not published till after the Crimson's editorial was written it was not to be expected that it could take account of it. The constitution of the association being modelled after that of the Athletic Association, the executive committee were unquestionably authorized in electing...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: The indignation aroused by the announcement that the faculty have passed a vote against building a fence around the new athletic grounds is intensified when we hear the reasons that prompted the action...
...shows clearly the objects that are to be gained by the new arrangement of our tennis affairs, and furnishes an answer to the objections brought up by some to the new plan. No one should now hesitate to join the association, and so support the executive committee in the action they have so wisely taken...
...elective system is often attacked, and attacked very severely, but never by those who have had practical experience of its workings. It is only a dozen years since, with great doubts as to the results of their action, a bare majority of the Harvard faculty voted to make the studies of upper classmen elective; it is only three years since they voted to make attendance on recitations voluntary; yet I doubt if ten members of that faculty could be found today who would advocate the repeal of either of those measures. It is because they have seen its fruits that...
...with his few Latin verses, deems himself far above the mental horizon of his village. Neither has he ever been subjected to the moral influence of his teachers; he stands entirely alone, proud of his independence, which he interprets as strength, and is anxious to prove by action. Now he is confronted by the double task of learning something at the university and earning some kind of living. With great exertion he succeeds in giving a few private lessons, which perhaps pay for his dinners. For lodgings, fuel, and all the rest his only hope lies in a scholarship...