Word: needed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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What the Tennis Association can do, however, is to provide for us courts that will cost little to build, that will need only a little sprinkling and occasional rolling to keep in order, and that will be only better the more they are played on-we mean bare clay courts. At Princeton no turf courts are used at all. The courts are almost as bare as a billiard table, require but little work, and can be played on half an hour after a rain. The new land east of the new track could be made into bare courts at very...
...favor of directing a larger share of attention in the arrangement of the curriculum to the exact and comprehensive study of our mother tongue. However this may be, it is certain that the department of modern English and of theme instruction in the college is very much in need of reorganizing or of strengthening in some manner or other. The prescribed courses given in this department have never been popular, and according to the common opinion have met with a very slight success in accomplishing the end aimed at. What plan the college can adopt to improve it in this...
...grand stand this year. There is no reason why this should not be done if the collectors appointed last spring and their friends to do as much as possible. We urge also upon the graduates of the college "not to forget us in our time of need," especially as we are not allowed to make a public call on them, and we hope that collectors of subscriptions may be appointed as soon as possible from...
...further hoped by the club that a large number of riders will take part in the run, feeling that no one, even if he has ridden but little, need despair of getting a prize...
...widely quoted. It is universally acknowledged the best of its kind, and other colleges have tried time and again to produce publications on exactly the same model. The natural supposition would be that a paper of so high a standard so peculiarly representative of college institutions, would never need to fear lack of support. But the contrary is the case. In spite of the numerous appeals made in its behalf, the Lampoon has not yet been assured sufficient support to warrant its continuance. The editor of a college paper has enough to do without being compelled...