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Some things the Tennis Association can do to improve the courts and some things it cannot. It is true that it can not give us first-class courts. Setting aside the great expense of grading and turfing, and of almost daily rolling, sprinkling and cutting, that is absolutely necessary if one is to have a good grass court at all-an expense the students would never submit to -no grass courts, however well cared for, could be kept in good condition under constant use and the wear and tear to which the college courts are subjected. They are played...
...which, while naturally partaking of much of the character of the former publications, would yet be free from many of the disadvantages under which they labored, and would possess a much wider range of possibilities than was open to either the Herald or the Crimson. We believe that a first-class college daily is now almost a necessity, and we also believe that it is possible to maintain one here at Harvard. It will therefore be our endeavor to make THE HERALD-CRIMSON first-class in every particular, and a fit representative paper for Harvard. We shall do our utmost...
...increased size should not find it to its interest and convenience to support and maintain a reading-room which shall surpass in its size and general accommodations all previous institutions of the kind seen at Harvard or at any other college. Yale has a reading-room of the very first-class, largely patronized by all the students. It is true that at Yale the college itself bears the larger proportion of the expenses of the room, while at Harvard it would probably be impossible to obtain from the college more than the mere use of a room without light...
...distant now that, in accordance with Dr. McCosh's suggestion, a department of philosophy is soon to be established, with him at its head. There are to be four or five other professors in the new school. The presidency of Princeton is the prize now awaiting some first-class scholar and educator. - [Transcript...
...prospects of the freshman crew seem to be excellent. Steady work and first-class material are likely to secure the crew a creditable place on the river in the spring. The example set by '83's freshman crew is one that should encourage all succeeding crews with good hopes for victory. How strong an opponent the freshmen will find in Columbia's freshman crew it is of course impossible to conjecture. The New York university will certainly make a strong effort to maintain the lead gained last year. The foot-ball record that '86 has already made should encourage...