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...college tennis courts have been growing worse every year. They are a little better now, after a summer of rest, but if they are used until late this autumn they will undoubtedly be worse next spring than ever before. Last year they were bad enough, and then we had more of them, and those now under the new track were the best of all. This is a poor lookout for those who expect to play tennis on college ground, and they are already beginning to grumble because the Tennis Association does not seem anxious to take measures to improve...
...moderately skillful team unaided by these other qualifications. Therefore we hope the captain will call upon all men in the class, old players or not, who are likely to possess the requisite weight, strength and endurance to present themselves as candidates and learn the game. Freshman year, if ever, is the time best suited for developing new players, and no opportunity for securing in this way the best possible eleven should be neglected...
...alarming backwardness in the matter of athletics. We cannot remember the time when the performance of this solemn duty did not fall to the lot of the Yale publications. Ancient custom has sanctioned it, and therefore, we presume, had the New Haven college the most phenomenally athletic class ever seen, it would still have to endure from its seniors words of disparagement and exhortation...
Harvard has now the best crew she has ever had, and probably the best college crew in the country. [Dartmouth...
...eighty-three left college, it took with it many of out most prominent athletes; men who have done much to give Harvard its present high position, and it is to the class of eighty-seven that we must look for men to supply their pleases. No class that has ever entered has had so great a number of men from whom to draw, and it certainly seems the duty of every member of the class to see that those men who can come forward in this matter should do so. In the course of a few weeks, there will...