The 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 proposed. The corporation accordingly voted to leave the matter of the disposal of the counts to the association. The plan proposed however, was not carried out as the executive committee of the association concluded that it would be less satisfactory than the present method, or lack of method, of disposing of the courts. This is the position in which the matter now stands. Nothing has been done because no satisfactory solution of the difficulty has been proposed. The solution proposed by the Advocate, though there is much to be said in its favor, is open to many objections. Apart from the expense and difficulty of keeping open an office like that proposed the nature of our tennis ground would cause the plan to be disapproved of by many of the most assiduous tennis players in college.

The fact is that our tennis courts are, as a rule, so poor that it is possible to play a satisfactory game on a particular court only after having got used to the inequalities of the ground. No one, therefore, who cares at all for tennis as a scientific game would make a practice of playing on the college grounds, as is now so largely done by many of the most assiduous players, as they could not be sure of being able to use the same court each day.

We call attention to these facts not so much in defense of the present system as to induce a more careful discussion of the subject. The Tennis Association will, we believe, be willing to move if, after a more considerate discussion of the question through the college papers, it seems proper that any decisive steps should be taken.