Word: crimson
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- Doubtless the managers of the Library do as well as they can to make it serve the largest number, but occasionally they fail. Here is an instance of incongruity: I wished to take out a volume of Sparks' "Life of Washington." The card catalogue states that there are three copies of this work. I was told that two copies are not allowed to be taken from the Library, and that the third is reserved. Why, in the name of common sense, is not one of the two copies which may not be taken...
There will be an important meeting of the CRIMSON board today...
...European politics. Beside this it should include a discussion of any subjects of general interest, for example the labor movement. Only by some such training, however acquired, does a man feel himself able intelligently to cope with the questions of his time. For the sake of those interested, the CRIMSON would urge the faculty to add to the present elective list a course on the topics...
...reader. The accounts of contests are concise and clear, and the tables of statistics, records and facts are the most comprehensive that have ever appeared in a book on athletics. Although the book is written for Yale men, some facts brought out in connection with contests between the crimson and the blue are interesting to Harvard men also...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- I wish to explain briefly the condition of the Tennis Association. When the Association was formed, it was found necessary to borrow $1150 from the college in order to meet the expenses of making the courts. This loan is being steadily repaid by subscriptions and is now reduced to $400. Your correspondent of Tuesday was wrong in saying that the back-nets were paid for by subscription. Every cent which was subscribed last year was for the reduction of the debt. The receipts from the courts do little more than cover the expenses of keeping the courts...