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WILL you kindly allow me space in your columns to endeavor to correct a misunderstanding arising from the occupation of a portion of Holmes Field by the Lacrosse Association...
...case of tennis. And it was the purpose of the Association to improve the ground considerably by removing several trees and by filling in and grading behind the backstop. They were told by the President, however, not to go to any expense in the matter, as the portion of field near Oxford Street was about to be occupied by the new Physical Laboratory...
...object of the Association in securing the ground was not to obtain the exclusive interest, but the controlling interest in the regulation and care of the ground. If the Lacrosse Association controlled the ground, the occupants of the tennis courts would have the use of the field except between the hours of four and six in the afternoon; by this means both games could be played on the same ground, and any outlay or expenditure could be shared proportionally...
...limit races has never before been attempted at Harvard, and we are sure that it will meet with the approval of all who are interested in the success of track athletics in our University. The 100-yards dash and 1/4-mile run, limit races, ought to bring out a large field of entries, since from the former Wendell, Mitchell, Mandell, Soren, &c., are barred, and in the latter Goodwin and Wendell cannot compete, each having a record better than the limit, 55 seconds. This is a chance for men who have never run before, and it is to be hoped that...
...Sophs!" the Seniors urging on the Sophomores, and the Juniors the Freshmen. Soon the football was forgotten, and the game was wont to take the appearance of the traditional bloody rush. Usually the fight became so fierce that there was need of a band of proctors to clear the field. Often six or seven of the Sophs ruminated over this night's struggle for six months in some retired spot in Maine or New Hampshire. In 1860 the Faculty, feeling the contests had grown too savage in late years, decided to prohibit the encounter, and therefore the undergraduates determined upon...