One of our contributors today writes at some length of the improvements on and about Holmes' Field. These improvements, coming one by one in the last two years, have as a whole been very numerous and exceedingly effective; they have made of what used to be a by no means beautiful spot, a place that must now become one of the centres toward which all interest in Harvard is directed. A view of Holmes from any quarter must have a charm for every one, even the foremost indifferent and insensible. The surrounding buildings, all full of interest and some of them true monuments of Harvard's success and greatness, the crimson-uniformed nine in the centre, the runners and bicyclers, the tennis players, and last and laziest, the throng of lookers-on on the out-skirts, all make on Holmes on any pleasant afternoon a very fascinating picture, which speaks as well for Harvard's athletic activity as for her intellectual progress.
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