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...association shall have the right of using a court at any time provided a holder of the court does not wish to use it, but those who are not members of the association shall not be allowed to use the courts, or, if they do so, shall have to yield to members of the association desiring to use them...
...That is, that ownership of a court consists merely of the right to have the exclusive use of a court between certain prescribed hours of the afternoon. Let any person have the right to use any unoccupied court between three and six, provided only that he be ready to yield the court to the owner in case he should wish...
...journalism that is occupied by no publication in this country. The only attempt at journalism at all similar, the Harvard Register, failed because it could not be said to represent the undergraduate or the instructor. Although largely filled with contributions from the pens of professors, it was compelled to yield to an official publication of the faculty; it had never commanded the support or interest of the undergraduates...
...graduates and the freshmen. But to exclude the former would be a lifelong matter, as a man always remains a graduate when once he has attained that position, while a freshman passes usually through that stage in a year; so that it seems better for the freshmen to yield. The proviso can be made that in case they win the Yale game the upper class men are willing to suffer the additional discomfort of the crowding at the tree that will come from their presence there. But the trouble last year arose from the indecision of the senior class...
...corner of Holmes field is safe from any encroachment for building purposes. Every one has noticed the muddy character of the soil there, but probably few have known the reason of it. That corner of the ground is, in fact, a rich peat-field, and if worked would doubtless yield no small returns. This fact, however, renders it unfit for holding the foundations of a building, so that athletics if finally, in the coming centuries, pinned down to that section, will be sure of one safe refuge from the advances of the mason and the carpenter...