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...tournament will be played on ten grass courts. Play will begin Saturday, June 16, at 1 p. m., and will be continued Monday, June 18 (Bunker Hill Day), at 10 a. m. All matches will be best two in three sets, the third only being advantage...
...that God should come down in all his pomp and glory upon the hills that clasp the homely landscape of their native village,- that he should work his wonders with the paltry material of their every-day life, that he should hang as fair diamonds of dew on Cambridge grass-blades as on their famous cousins of Mount Hermon. These autumn trees of ours that seem to have caught and kept the sunset in their branches till it looks as if a western evening-cloud had stretched itself in Fresh Pond meadows, are too ordinary for marvel...
Harvard's fielding was very poor, but the difference in the diamond at Williamstown from that on Jarvis Field bothered the men a good deal. It is impossible to adapt the playing at once from a smooth ground to a grass surface...
...understood that they opposed the petition unanimously. The chief objections were: the late time of the year for beginning a scheme which would be essentially experimental; the liability to injure the field by embankments for the pond, and by the extensive drainage required; the liability to kill the grass by so much ice; the apparently deficient estimate of the expense of the work; and the inconvenience to those who have to cross the field. The Corporation has never been in favor of enclosures where admission is paid, and they felt that a skating pond on Holmes Field, run like...
...suggestion that Holmes Field be flooded has been heard many times by the writer; is there any sufficient reason why the suggestion should not be acted upon? Two reasons why it has not been done in the past have been quoted, viz., fear of injury to the grass and to the cinder track. If it is possible for harm to be done to either of these by ice, the conditions which usually prevail on Holmes Field during the winter are the worst possible and the addition of six inches of water, enough to cover the field, would dimiinish rather than...