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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: It seems to me that the vexed matter of a fence around the new athletic grounds might be arranged by a compromise. Every unprejudiced student will admit, I think, that the faculty have some strong arguments on their side of the question; besides, the fence built near the track, as it will have to be, will not be an unqualified benefit, as every ball player who has climbed a fence after a ball knows...
...sentiments. It is sufficient annoyance when his hoots and cries are confined to the outside of the fence, but when his comments on the game are shouted forth almost directly over one's head, it is simply unbearable. Perhaps no better argument could be brought forward for a fence around the new athletic grounds than a few such exhibitions as these...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: Is the freshman class to be admitted to the exercises around the class tree or not? If the committee to which the decision of this question was left will decide one way or another, it will confer a favor on many members...
...aesthetic objection which has been raised to the fence about the new athletic grounds can be very easily solved, as has been suggested, by building a fence around the grounds which shall be ornamental in itself. In this connection we would suggest to the committee a consideration of the style of fence which is to surround the new athletic grounds at Yale. This consists of a thickly planted hedge of sufficient height closely flanked by a barbed wire fence. Such a fence would certainly answer all purposes, and would besides meet very well several of the objections urged against...
...last Spirit of the Times discusses the recent action of the faculty in voting against having a fence around the new athletic grounds, and sharply criticizes them for their action...