Last spring we took occasion to remark that a very small percentage of the $1200 annual income from the tennis courts was spent on their improvement. Considering their notoriously poor condition, we thought it strange that so much money should be allowed to flow into channels in no way connected with tennis. It seemed to us only fair that the men who contributed this $1200 should have the best possible equipment under the circumstances. We ventured to point out that this was far from the case, that a certain sum of money, contributed by the large number of men who indulge in tennis, was not used to stay, the crying need of the courts. Unfortunately, the true situation was not called to our attention until too late last spring for us to advocate improvements before the end of the year.
Therefore, we write now, in order that the proper authorities may have sufficient time to ponder a subject on which a large number of undergraduates entertain no indefinite opinions.
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