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Dates: during 1880-1889
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DEAR EDITORS CRIMSON. - One of the items in your issue of yesterday seems to refer to my former communication to you. Excuse me if I say that the comments in that item are irrelevant; I might even put a harsher word and call them flippant. While suggesting that upperclassmen invite freshmen to their rooms, I made no mention of lunch or any other kind of entertainment, as I know well that most of us demand no more than that we should be allowed to mingle on terms of equality with the older fellows. I am sure that we freshmen...
...kind are chiefly useful in preparing good material for the 'varsity teams of the following year. The decision of the question whether ninety is to form an eleven, should of course rest in the hands of the Cricket Association. We would strongly urge that such a course might prove useful in supplying good men for next year's team...
...take it into their heads to leave the books lying about the tables promiscuously after using them. It is tantalizing in the extreme to have men continually picking up the books to see their titles and then throw them down and rummage about in another heap. All this annoyance might be avoided if every man would make it a point to replace the volumes on the shelves and in their right places...
Some rule might be passed by which all engaged lockers of which possession has not been taken a fortnight after the opening of college could be let It is very tantalizing for those who did not have the luck to secure any lockers, to see lockers which are taken but are not used, while they, when they desire to exercise, have to hang their clothes in the dressing-rooms, which are very small and uncomfortable, or lay them on the lockers, which crowds their owners space...
...tendencies there will be several more Harvard men to back up his reputation. We have unusual facilities for field tennis in Harvard, but could not an arrangement be made for some sort of a racquet court, where the more skill-requiring game of court tennis could be played. It might be under the auspices of the H. A. A., or the work of a private organization, to be opened to public use afterward, on payment of rent, just as the courts on Holmes are paid for. We recommend the consideration of this idea to the officers of the Athletic Association...