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...correspondent at Wellesley has just forwarded the results of the tennis tournament which has been held there. There was a long list of entries, and the playing throughout was very close. The playing of the doubles was particularly interesting. But the playing of the singles, although at times rather loose and showing a tendency of some of the players to get rattled, gave a chance for some brilliant plays. There was awarded a first prize for singles, a first and second prize for doubles. The contest resulted as follows: Singles, first prize, Miss H. J. Wells, '87; doubles, first prize...
...what possible difference it can make to Yale whether they play in New York on Thanksgiving or four or five days earlier than that, no one, except themselves, is able to see. If Yale persists in her course, it will look as though it was fear of Princeton rather than support of a great principle which influences such action...
...Religious Decadence at Harvard" is no exception to this rule. The Nation, we are glad to see, has published in its current issue, a complete refutation of the article on the subject published previously. We hope that the discussion will now be allowed to rest. Considerable feeling of a rather sanguinary tinge has already been aroused. As we do not wish to incur the expense of defensive armor, we hail this new expression of confidence in the religious training of Harvard as calculated to relieve us of our holy burden and to carry consternation into the camp of the enemy...
...required, have been exasperated beyond all reasonable limit of endurance by the custom, which has become quite prevalent, of taking reserved books from the library on unlimited and unrecorded leases. Those who are guilty of this breach of fairness are without doubt thoughtless of the rights of others, rather than deliberate disturbers of the college peace. Thoughtlessness, however, is no excuse. Protests have been made so that now everyone must know that he is committing a theft when he deprives others of rights belonging to all, by this selfish pilfering. A few lessons in criminal law would...
...cheap edifice at one end of it, we are sure that the ball nine and the Mott Haven team would much prefer to see the energy, which is to be exerted to keep the championships at Harvard, displayed in furnishing them subscriptions for necessary expenses, and candidates for vacancies, rather than providing new seats for the penniless '89 men to sit upon to witness their victories. The old seats must do for another year at least...