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...Advocate's revised plan for the consideration of the Tennis Association seems to us to be an improvement neither on the one already adopted nor on the one as presented some weeks ago, from which the main idea of the Advocate's suggestion is taken. The amendment which the Advocate offers to our plan is that for two hours in the day the courts be reserved for the exclusive use of the owners. This, it seems to us, would simply bring about a return of the old state of affairs. All the owners would choose to keep the exclusive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/15/1883 | See Source »

...easy, of course, to find objections to the present plan, but no plan could be devised that would be satisfactory in all points. The only thing to be done is to give the new plan a fair trial. The objections raised by the Advocate are not without force, but our observation has been that the new arrangement has already led to a much more general use of the courts with little dissatisfaction to the owners or other members...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/15/1883 | See Source »

...opinion, this is the only way, at least for a long time to come, to solve the question of female higher education, and the way that should be universally adopted. We hope that the call for aid by the annex will meet with satisfactory answers, so that the plan will be a success...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/14/1883 | See Source »

...plan which the committee propose includes the following particulars: That a course of study should be prepared to extend over a term of four years; that it should be arranged in groups; that of these groups one should be required for the first two years, and that with it another should be selected; that on the expiration of the first two years all the groups should become elective; that a general and very strict preparatory examination should be held for admission to the four years' course, and that this examination should have reference to the course in general, like...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WOMEN AT COLUMBIA COLLEGE. | 5/12/1883 | See Source »

...considerable number of young women should avail themselves of what is thus offered, it will be an encouragement to wealthy and liberal citizens to contribute freely toward giving the plan a definite and permanent shape by founding and endowing a department for the education of women bearing to our college a relation analogous to that of that of what is commonly known as the Annex...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WOMEN AT COLUMBIA COLLEGE. | 5/12/1883 | See Source »