Word: problems
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...question of the use of the tennis courts on Holmes and Jarvis has been a much debated one. The Tennis Association, to whom the college naturally looked for a solution of the problem, has incurred much blame through its apparent inactivity. This inactivity has, however, been due to the impossibility of reaching any satisfactory decision as to the disposal or use of the courts. Last year the executive committee of the association drew up a plan, which they laid before the corporation, requesting to be given authority to dispose of the ground devoted to tennis in accordance with the plan...
Arrangements have been made so that instead of having the street cars stop at the railroad crossing, the locomotive will be required to make a full stop 150 feet from each crossing, and send a man ahead to see that the gates are down. A happy solution of the problem...
...happened that the instruction given at these conferences coincided very well with the courses I had intended pursuing at Harvard; but how to obtain admittance to them was a problem that seemed to me well nigh incapable of being solved. I bethought myself of a certificate furnished me by our dean, and with a modest mien, determined to put it to practical use. With my indifferent French I explained with some difficulty to the authorities my desires, displayed the dean's certificate and the wonders of a systematically arranged catalogue of an American university, being exceedingly careful to give them...
From time to time during the past half dozen years the introduction of the game of cricket into our colleges has been under discussion. At first the subject was looked upon as a problem, but there stood ready in several of our largest universities those who proposed to crack the nut. In Philadelphia the leading clubs took the matter in hand and did much to encourage the proposition. At last, about three years ago, the Intercollegiate Cricket Association was organized, and the initial meeting, which was held in New York, was attended by representatives from Harvard, Trinity of Hartford, Princeton...
...devolve upon the members to determine the future policy of the society by the election of a president and board of directors to succeed the present officers. The first year of the society - necessarily a tentative and experimental year - has, we think, been highly successful, and has solved the problem of the society's future existence. The extent of the benefits that have been conferred and of the work that has been done by the society, of course cannot be fully and accurately known until the reports of the president, treasurer and superintendent are presented at the approaching annual meeting...