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...tennis being more popular than lacrosse was proved, it would have great weight with the faculty, and he suggested a petition. Another gentleman on the athletic committee said that Dr. Sargent's action was hasty and the grounds were positively to be given to lacrosse and cricket, on the east and west ends of Jarvis field, in order to get their position settled. In the fall, new tennis courts, behind Divinity Hall and in other places will be provided, but for the present spring the association will be confined to some ten or fifteen scattered courts on Holmes and Jarvis...
...trouble between the Tennis and Lacrosse Associations is based on a misunderstanding. Professor Norton states definitely that the east end of Jarvis has been assigned to the lacrosse team, and that it will not be taken from them. Under these circumstances, any petition on behalf of the tennis association to the athletic committee is, of course useless...
Among the curious phenomena that spring presents to us here at Harvard, there is probably no spectacle more remarkable in itself and in its bearings than the return of the "mucker." When the earth is covered with snow and our puritanical east winds are whistling through the yard, it may be confidently asserted that no one ever sees one of these shaggy-headed sprites wending his way about the college. But with the white blossoms of spring and the first baseball game he somes in all his glory. To be sure some few symptoms of him can be seen generally...
...team can play, with a very few courts on its out-skirts in place of the thirty or forty courts and three fields there before. Then, too, when the new arrangement is complete, the University nine will have the exclusive use of Holmes field, the lacrosse twelve the east end of Jarvis field, the cricket eleven the west end, and tennis courts the centre. Where are the freshmen to practice in the spring and fall? What will the tennis men do with only half the number of courts that they had two years ago? Where are any of the unorganized...
...third meeting on Saturday was atteaded by the usual crowd of spectators. A new arrangement placed all the ladies at the east end of the building and it seemed as if there were more of the fair sex present then ever before. The new plan of seating seemed to be better than that hither to practised. The officers of the meeting were: referee, Dr. D. A. Sargent; judges, Prof. Byerly and Mr. I. Tucker Burr, '79: officer in charge, W. H. Goodwin, Jr., '84. Mr. Coolidge, the president of the association presided. Towards the close of the meeting...