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...this spring seems to be on the increase, and numerous claims have been made on the ground available for courts, so that our fields are now closely scored. The distribution of these courts is remarkable. They lie at every angle with each other and at all points of the compass. Occupancy of the ground is the whole law, and possession is ill-defined. It is to be hoped that the Tennis Association will revive sufficiently to take some action in regard to the occupancy of courts and the terms of possession. Some equitable rules should be drawn up to govern...
...Scotch universities afford efficient class teaching; the German universities give the fullest instruction by professional lectures; the English universities excel in social advantages and in opportunities for forming valuable friendships. The excessive development of their examination system has certainly injured their teaching; but it has been improving in compass as well as in earnestness, and seems likely to improve still further...
...were we doing in Chelsea? We were on a "geological survey" to study the formations of the country around. Unfortunately, we only had a self-appointed '80 man for an instructor, but being an '80 man he was a perfect stranger there, so he was obliged to buy a compass, in order to "know where he was when he was lost." We started on Hanfield Avenue, turned up Victory Street and ascended Mount Garfield, where we could see the charming city Chelsea below us, and in the distance the blue air of Boston. The great questions to be solved were...
...coasters seemed strangely familiar to me. A double-runner was about to start; in front was a man whom I recognized as one before whose eagle eye I had often trembled, but now that eye was firmly fixed on the North Star; in one hand he had a compass, in the other a cane. Behind, his arms fast locked about his leader's waist, sat another mathematical genius, one whose smooth boyish face has often caused the timid Freshman to wonder that "one small head could carry all he knew." Behind him, a large, comfortable-looking man; and last...
Those of us whose ambition is restrained within a narrower compass, whose aspirations are confined merely to a degree, have the same difficulty about the extent of our knowledge and the length of time we have been acquiring it. Seniors, as a general rule, take four three-hour electives. They are obliged to take twelve hours, and this is ordinarily the most convenient division of the twelve. It often happens that one of the four courses has some particular interest which the others lack, or two may interest a man and the other two bore him; or he may search...