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...committee on the constitution has brought forth after months of labor? If the whole matter is understood by those interested, next fall we shall experience no such indiscriminate scrambling for courts as occur annually. Some persons are really curious to know if the Tennis Association will ever relapse into action, and among these is, yours truly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/9/1882 | See Source »

...college grounds. In view of this fact, there can now be no excuse for inactivity on the part of the association. With complete power in its own hands, if it but makes a judicious use of it, the association can prove itself exceedingly useful to the students. Vigorous action should be taken to bring about order out of the chaos that has heretofore ruled in the matter of tennis courts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/4/1882 | See Source »

...phonography be established in the college. Bogus names were affixed to the petition by some person who wished to be funny, and defaced as it was, as the Era says, the probabilities of its being granted are greatly lessened. We do not wish to comment upon the foolish action of affixing the bogus names, for that has already been handled severely enough in a very sensible editorial in the Era, but would observe that a course in phonography - an elective to be taken as regular college work by those who desired - would be very useful at Harvard, certainly as useful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/3/1882 | See Source »

...work has been stopped on the British tunnel until further action has been taken by Parliament on the matter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. | 5/2/1882 | See Source »

...Union League Club of New York has presented a petition to the board of trustees of Columbia College praying them to admit women to lectures and examinations in the college. The petition sites the state of opinion as evinced by the recent action of the universities of Cambridge and London. Dr. Storrs, Parke Goodwin and E. L. Godkin are among the petitioners...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 4/26/1882 | See Source »