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...upon the college grounds were held by a sort of "squatter sovereignty," and complaints in consequence became so frequent that the tennis players of the university formed an association, which was to assume charge of the courts, and, in return for the small annual assessment fee required, was to keep them marked and rolled...
...last three years, since the fall class races were given up for the sake of foot ball, scratch races have been held by the boatclub. The object of these races is to afford the college at large a few hours exciting entertainment and to keep awake an interest in boating at Harvard during the fall without injury to our foot ball prospects. The four senior eights will be chosen from those entered either by lot or by four men selected for that purpose by the boat club. These crews will probably be composed of experienced oarsmen, although a few inexperienced...
During the past year little or nothing has been done toward raising more money for a suitable grandstand more money for a suitable grand-stand and dressing-rooms near the track, and for a fund to keep the track in order. For this purpose, and for a fence, if not impracticable, a large sum of money is needed, and when the committee on the track is reconstituted by the association, or by the executive committee this fall, we must hope that its action will be energetic and that the men appointed by it to raise money in college and from...
...club. The plan which the club has in giving these entertainments, to bring the subject of elocution before the college at large, is an excellent one. The study of elocution is one which is too much neglected here, and which languishes rather from the students' tendency to keep in the regular rut to which they are accustomed, than from any fault of the study itself. Those who do take up elocution generally become enthusiastic over it, but their number is too small to make an impression upon the great mass of the indifferent. The plan proposed by the founders...
...five o'clock the classes will assemble in the yard. The graduates will assemble at the same time, 5.15. The juniors enter the enclosure two by two, followed by the sophomores, freshmen and graduates in order. Each class will keep to the left; the juniors walking around the tree and occupying the northwest corner, and as far as the second window in Holden Chapel. The sophomores will follow, leaving a space of three feet between them and the juniors, and will sit in the south-west corner; and towards the juniors the freshmen will sit next, leaving three feet between...