Word: plans
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...forward to many a pleasant afternoon devoted to tennis. The tennis association has solved the problem whether the game was to continue at Harvard as a sport for all or only for the few, and have solved it in a manner which will meet the approval of all. The plan which they present to the public this morning is no paper scheme, but one based upon something firm, with every probability of a successful outcome. It is a plan which will give the Tennis Association a place in the regard of every student as high as that now occupied...
...plan of paying for the daily use of courts is also a good one. When we get the courts we shall want to keep them and not have them used up after the wear and tear of a season. The expense of keeping them in order and making them will be slight. The association should endeavor to keep the fees as small as possible; but even with the rates named in their announcement a man can play an average of two or three afternoons a week throughout the long season at an expense of two or three dollars...
...latter portion of our correspondent's letter contains better suggestions. The plan of having the Index contain a directory of the men living in the dormitories would be a great addition, and one that the students would appreciate and use. Such a directory would supply a long felt want, which the catalogue cannot attempt to supply, and neither the Index nor any of the pamphlets issued in the autumn have yet filled. Then, too, without casting any reflection upon the present editor, we would like to urge that a change in the present manner of editing our annual is desirable...
...portrayed several beautiful obelisks and tomos, with a little-Moses-in-the bulrushes,-and-Baalim-and-his-assattachment. Why the plain and tasteful cover of last year should have been discarded for this somewhat weird design, it is hard to conjecture. Opening the volume we find that the general plan of the work is much the same as in former years. The old societies, with but few exceptions, are represented in its pages. In typographical excellence the present volume falls somewhat below previous standards...
...wish to do injustice to anyone, and we appreciate the work which the committee attempted to do, but we fail to see why some such plan was not followed...