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Large quantities of fine cinders are being screened to form a top layer on the new quarter-mile track...
...hour or so at least and next morning has a cough or cold to help him in his grinding. Plank walks to the library would prove a great blessing. As it is now, not a path leading to that building is not covered on a mild day with a layer of melting slush or mud almost as deep. The remedy is simple and not expensive. With plank walks in some places and not in others a false sense of security from wet feet grows up, which is rudely broken as often as one makes his way libraryward...
...Student indulges in the following scientific explanation as to "why a girl cannot play tennis": "The first difficulty is found in grasping the racket. This is due to the fact that in the female hand a layer of adipose tissue makes the hand too rounded firmly to hold the handle. Consequently, if a ball strikes the side of the racket, the racket turns and the ball bounds at a right angle to the line by which it came. This effect is heightened by a quick out ward swing of the hand, caused by the small development of the os lunare...
...courts are almost as bare as a billiard table, require but little work, and can be played on half an hour after a rain. The new land east of the new track could be made into bare courts at very little expense, by simply replacing the present thin layer of loam with one of clay, and grading so that the rain would not form puddles. Here is a chance for the officers of the Tennis Association to show that they are interested in the welfare of the members, by improving those courts on which the great majority of the members...
...unfortunate mistake has been made in regard to the track, owing to a misinterpretation of the contract. The specifications called for a layer of coarse cinders and gravel upon the foundation, and then upon this a layer three inches thick of fine cinders and sand. This would make a porous covering through which any water could easily pass to the foundation and be drained off. But instead of this being done a layer of small rocks and gravel was laid, and this covered with a layer of ashes and fine gravel. Of course this would tend to form a concrete...