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...that the Wellesley tennis grounds are upon the side of a hill, this is not true. The grounds are very level and offer a good opportunity for close playing. Many of the players are well known to us as having vanquished some of our best players during the past summer, and this fact answers conclusively the remark that "girls can't play tennis." It has been rumored that the president participated in the playing. This also is not true. It was hoped that some of the faculty would take part, even in disguise, but the hope was not realized...
...notice that the Advocate has taken up the question of providing the '88 crew with cups as mementos of the race they so gallantly won last summer. We think this proposal is all the more worthy of acceptance, as '88 was virtually thrown out of all chance of trying for the cups in the class races last May by the referee's refusal to allow her to replace her broken rudder. We think that the Boat Club ought to give a reward, be it ever so little, to the men who worked so earnestly to bring honor to their class...
...Summer repairs...
...Summer repairs...
...expect to hear a few smothered imprecations over matters which, though to the freshman eye enormous evils, have become perfectly adapted to the Harvard condition of calm, admiring and independent indifference. It is needless to say that we refer, not to the pump, it is true, nor to that summer boarder, the mucker, who like the poor, is always with us, but to the "state of the yard." Coolness and audacity are necessary to approach this subject, but necessity is even more powerful than imprudence. One of the notably weak spots of the yard is that beautiful, sloping, inclined, hollowedout...