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HARVARDS VS. WALTHAMS-Jarvis Field...
...fully agree with the position of the committee that, while lacrosse needs a field, tennis can be played in various smaller places on the college grounds and outside, where it would be impracticable to play lacrosse at all. The justice of this position is undeniable. Next fall we are assured that a number of new courts will be thrown open to the college, and that the interests of tennis, as the most popular means of exercise and recreation, will be fully kept in mind. As for this spring, all that those of us who wish to play tennis...
...proved, it would have great weight with the faculty, and he suggested a petition. Another gentleman on the athletic committee said that Dr. Sargent's action was hasty and the grounds were positively to be given to lacrosse and cricket, on the east and west ends of Jarvis field, in order to get their position settled. In the fall, new tennis courts, behind Divinity Hall and in other places will be provided, but for the present spring the association will be confined to some ten or fifteen scattered courts on Holmes and Jarvis field. The situation of each...
EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON: - Your paper realizes the fact that base ball has a delimma, but fails to perceive that this dilemma, like most others, has two horns. You take one horn when you say the college must have more grounds. For eighteen men to play base ball a field of three or four acres is necessary. To make the game a general recreation for students at large would require all the unoceeupied land for miles around. President Eliot took the other horn of the dilemmanamely, that base ball should be supplanted by some game which requires less territory. Such...
...last fall this tract was full of hollows and ploughed patches devoted to garden purposes. When it was found that the college grounds would be cramped by the building of the new Jefferson Laboratory, the hollows were filled up and a large hummock leveled, then this new field was planted with grass-seed. The whole is an acre or so in extent and has only a gentle slope toward the southeast. Mr. Eveleth, superintendent of the grounds, said that in June, after the grass had been cut once, the turf would be in a condition for use. This seemed hardly...