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EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: Permit me to offer through your columns a suggestion in regard to the tennis courts Could not some arrangement be made by which they would gradually become the common property of all members of the association? Suppose, for example, that as the courts were given up by their present holders, they were not to be reassigned. In this way there would be a gradually increasing number of courts on which any members of the association could play, when they had once secured one for their game, without fear of interruption...
...present to our readers this morning a general outline of the changes in the elective pamphlet. What at once attracts attention is the rapid increase in the amount of instruction offered in the department of Semitic Languages. Although the opponents of the centralization of universities, if we may use the expression, may oppose such studies on the ground that they are not "practical" it is in the attention to such departments of higher education that Harvard College earns the title of being the first American university. If Harvard wishes to claim a position among the universities of the world...
...offer these suggestions in the hope that more general satisfaction can be obtained from the use of the grounds now occupied by tennis. We feel that a perfectly satisfactory solution of the difficulty is well-nigh impossible, but as the ground is inadequate and likely to become more so, we wish to do our best to lighten the labors of the association...
...instructor how to interest his classes. The petition which is now being circulated, asking that Dr. Laughlin be retained, is receiving a very large number of signatures, and it is certainly to be hoped that the corporation will in this case acquiesce in the decision of the students and offer to Dr. Laughlin sufficient inducements to continue in his present position...
...when entrance to these departments can be made from a mere high school education, we have not a university; to obviate this, two paths are open, either to improve and enlarge the two or three leading colleges and greatly increase their requirements so that the smaller colleges shall offer preliminary instruction to the larger, or else all the present American colleges must be preparatory to a higher university, yet to be established. We much prefer the former; the present education, however, rather tends towards the latter...