Now that the tennis courts are again in use, a question which must often have occurred to many men is being asked again: Why not allow the courts to be used on Sunday? One cannot doubt that such a privilege would be appreciated by those who do not have enough leisure to take the exercise that they need on other days of the week. To be convinced of the great popularity of tennis here, one has only to visit the courts on any fair afternoon, when he will find every court in use and men waiting for a chance to play.

In the last few years there has grown up in the community a very sensible and wholesome liberality in regard to the observance of Sunday. Recreation and religion are no longer thought incompatible; each is reaching its appropriate place in the popular estimation. At present those few students who are fortunately situated take their Sunday recreation at the shore or in the country; others spend the day in study or in less profitable pursuits in Cambridge. To the majority of the undergraduates, then, the use of the tennis counts on Sunday would be a welcome privilege.

The trend of American custom, observable at Harvard as in every other community, is away from the old Puritan strictness. Sooner or later we shall reach the point where any reasonable means of exercise or recreation that is permissible on week-days will not be thought out of place on Sunday. We believe that Sunday tennis playing would not be repugnant either to the city of Cambridge or to the University, and that it would be welcomed by many students for whom Sunday is often a day of deadly dullness.