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...glad to learn that Brown intends making a needed improvement in her base-ball field by leveling the hill in right field...
...article in the last Crimson on the college fields seems to point to a gloomy future for our athletics. "When all the fields except Jarvis are taken up for building purposes," bewails the Crimson, "there will be no class nines, no cricket, no lacrosse, very little tennis" and "a handful of good athletes will play base-ball in the spring and foot-ball in the autumn, and that will be all." This is certainly a gloomy prospect. But even at the worst we should hardly be reduced to this, as a large part of Holmes field is unfit for building...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: At the debate of the Institute of 1770 last Tuesday evening, it was suggested that if there existed some such committee of the students as was proposed, the disgraceful condition of the walking on Holmes field would probably be improved. The icy condition of the path renders the walking not only difficult but positively dangerous. It would seem as though the corporation might, without any great expense, have a few ashes scattered on a path which is used by so large a number of persons...
...shown some indiscretion in setting so high a price as announced upon reserved seats for the ladies' days of the winter meetings. This is a considerable advance on the price of tickets last year, when an excuse was made of heavy expenses incurred for repairing the track on Jarvis field and for fitting up the meeting-room in the gymnasium. But now that there is a handsome balance in the treasury of the association, we fail to see why the former money-making scheme should be persisted in and improved upon. This proceeding is at the best somewhat questionable...
However much the university may grow, the north-east corner of Holmes field is safe from any encroachment for building purposes. Every one has noticed the muddy character of the soil there, but probably few have known the reason of it. That corner of the ground is, in fact, a rich peat-field, and if worked would doubtless yield no small returns. This fact, however, renders it unfit for holding the foundations of a building, so that athletics if finally, in the coming centuries, pinned down to that section, will be sure of one safe refuge from the advances...