COURTING FAVOR

The student whose time, taste, or abilities do not allow him to enter into either the major sports or the majority of minor sports has found in squash racquets a game exactly adapted to his needs. That participation therein should be hampered by inadequate facilities is a new condition, an unfortunate by-product of new popularity.

It is a situation that may be labelled critical, when a number of men are denied the privilege of taking exercise at least every other day. During the Reading Period, when lengthened hours of study have drawn upon the other activities of the undergraduate, the problem is presented in all its acuteness. The situation should, not however, be regarded as a temporary one. The extension of playing hours at the courts was an excellent decision, but one that has been overlapped by present need.

Squash now holds an enthusiasm that has many marks of permanency. Among them, the fact that its growth is not local, but nation-wide, seems to lend credence to the belief that additional courts would not go unused. It would be agreeable if Harvard, with the solution of some of her other athletic problems already in sight, should be able to satisfy a young but lustily growing need.