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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...club during vacations, but must give at least one week's notice on changing from one club to another. It was voted to send an American team to England in 1884, $5,000 having been guaranteed to pay the expenses of the trip. Secretary Flannery stated that he would offer a gold medal to the goal-keeper of the club winning the Oelrichs Cup this season...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: Permit me to offer through your columns a suggestion in regard to the tennis courts Could not some arrangement be made by which they would gradually become the common property of all members of the association? Suppose, for example, that as the courts were given up by their present holders, they were not to be reassigned. In this way there would be a gradually increasing number of courts on which any members of the association could play, when they had once secured one for their game, without fear of interruption...
...present to our readers this morning a general outline of the changes in the elective pamphlet. What at once attracts attention is the rapid increase in the amount of instruction offered in the department of Semitic Languages. Although the opponents of the centralization of universities, if we may use the expression, may oppose such studies on the ground that they are not "practical" it is in the attention to such departments of higher education that Harvard College earns the title of being the first American university. If Harvard wishes to claim a position among the universities of the world...
...offer these suggestions in the hope that more general satisfaction can be obtained from the use of the grounds now occupied by tennis. We feel that a perfectly satisfactory solution of the difficulty is well-nigh impossible, but as the ground is inadequate and likely to become more so, we wish to do our best to lighten the labors of the association...
...when entrance to these departments can be made from a mere high school education, we have not a university; to obviate this, two paths are open, either to improve and enlarge the two or three leading colleges and greatly increase their requirements so that the smaller colleges shall offer preliminary instruction to the larger, or else all the present American colleges must be preparatory to a higher university, yet to be established. We much prefer the former; the present education, however, rather tends towards the latter...