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Tennis-players are indefatigable and persistent. Their industry and enthusiasm is generally to be admired. Nevertheless, we have heard the fastidious object to one extreme to which the eagerness of the players of this fascinating game often leads them. That, in the very midst of the most exciting match games with different colleges, played on Jarvis or Holmes, tennis courts should be in active operation in the near vicinity, utterly regardless of the patriotic contest going on so near, does seem remarkable, to say the least. The bobbing of a tennis ball is a delightful sight-in its proper time...
...those of Harvard; that, if anything, Harvard's are more promising. It is impossible, as yet, to prognosticate anything of either Dartmouth or Amherst, as the practice games of the former were the first of ball they bad had this spring, and the latter has not yet been heard from. Exciting and close games may be expected...
...article in this month's Miscellany that I just went to my room and had a real good cry. Really and truly, dear HERALD, I didn't think I was doing anything wrong when I wrote to you that way. You can imagine how I felt when I heard Daisy Randall say in a crowd (and she was looking at me just as hard as ever she could) that it was the "freshest" thing she ever heard of. But I must tell you what the Miscellany said, because I know that it will never be sent to you again...
...innocent ones to go to the board and tell them that it was not they; and then the Miscellany got mad because only the older girls went, ("older" means here, those who are "allowed to receive callers,") and says: "We wish that the author of the article could have heard the strong expressions of sorrow made to various members of the board by the older students; we think that she might have modified her views concerning what doubtless appears to her as an exceedingly witty and brilliant achievement...
...Townsend), yet I cannot grant that we 'blundered' into independence, nor can I hope that our country will, at some future time 'blunder' into glory. On the whole, I cannot think this performance worthy to have been written by an alumnus of Harvard University, or to be heard by the enlightened citizens of our metropolis." Brave words and honorable to "Harvard spirit...