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There will be no Davis Cup, no Wightman Cup, no Wimbledon matches this summer. It is the war. But what shocked U. S. tennis fans last week was the announcement that Boston's Longwood Cricket Club had been forced to cancel its tournament, for nearly half a century a major tune-up for the national championships. Reason: aristocratic Longwood can no longer afford to pay America's top-ranking amateurs (most of whom come from California) the "expenses" they demand for appearing in tournaments...
...oval, mahogany table, had resigned as chairman of the board. Granddaddy of the Du Pont clan, he had been with the company for almost 50 years, starting as a chemist, moving from the presidency to the chairmanship in 1919. He was ready to retire to his enormous hothouses at Longwood Gardens, where he plucks orchids and figs, to sit in the evening on his broad plaza and watch his $500,000 fountain swish and spurt in beams of many-colored light...
Yale's strong tennis squad took a surprising liking to the indoor playing surfaces of the Longwood Cricket Club and the Country Club and administered an 8 to 1 defeat to the Crimson netmen Saturday afternoon in a match forced indoors because of rain...
Herbert Driscoll and Thomas Wheelan apprehended Mims Whose hands were bound by his coat belt. They prevented his leap and called the Cambridge police who took the instructor to the Longwood Street psychopathic wards...
Harvard has always rendered small services to the intelligentsia of the Metropolitan District, but has had little to offer the poorer classes. There have been lectures on Emerson for the good ladies of Brattle Street and lectures on babies for enterprising mothers within walking distance of Longwood Avenue. Yet, as Cambridge has become industrialized, whole generations have grown up, surrounded, bewildered, flaunted by the organization that is Harvard. They have been ignorant of the Oversoul and too busy to visit the Medical School; Harvard has offered them little and their children nothing. Yet these thousands of underprivileged youngsters have kept...