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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...feel certain that anything he may leave in his locker will be there when he returns for it. The question is when is this state of things coming to an end? Manifestly not when two individuals who have been committing systematic robbery, are allowed to go free after paying a fine of fifteen dollars. Yet such was the penalty that the court of Cambridge saw fit to inflict on the aforesaid freshmen. When thieves can systematically steal with a small risk of detection, in spite of the watchful vigilance of those in charge of the gymnasium, and when, if detected...
...short time ago there appear in our columns a communication in which the writer complained of the prices charged by the Tennis Association for the use of the courts. It really does seem strange, that while the college grants ground to the other associations free of charge, it should levy a tax upon the tennis players. The cost of keeping the tennis courts and nets in order is not such an overwhelming burden for the college to bear. And there is a very large number of men to whom the tax of ten to twenty cents...
TEACHER WANTED for vacation to lead children to observe and investigate plants etc. Two hours per day for free home on a farm. Address Oak Grove, Newburgh-on-Hudson, New York...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- It is noteworthy that the committee of the overseers, in their recent report, absolutely neglected, in enumerating the various athletic sports at college, to mention the most popular one, that which is free from the numerous moral and physical abuses to which, it is said, the others are subject. I mean tennis. It is the most popular, if we may judge by the number who take exercise in the various games It is not brutal, or dangerous; nor does the excitement of the contest tend to cause participants or spectators "to resort to methods which their cooler...
...prevented from indulging in this irreproachable form of exercise. The treasury which can open its vaults for a trainer and a running track and can pay for "the preparation of a large arege area of land for use as a college playground" cannot plead poverty to the demand for free tennis...