Word: colds
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Under the old system dinner was served at noon, even on the days when games were played in the afternoon. At night there was a light tea, consisting of cold meats, toast and some kind of preserve. Dr. Conant at once changed the heavy meal of the day from noon to the evening and for the tea substituted a good, substantial lunch. Formerly the diet of the players was made up largely of meat. No vegetables were allowed and few starches, as these were supposed to be bad for the athlete's wind. The meats were then cooked very rare...
...baths also there has been an important change which is of comparatively recent introduction. Four years ago hot baths were usually taken and little cold water was used. Princeton was the first to appreciate the advantage of cold baths, and the r eleven of 1889 showed a toughness which is largely attributable to this innovation. Now little warm water is used and a quick, cold shower is followed by a sharp...
...past few days of cold weather bring to mind the need of a place for skating during the winter. The ponds about Cambridge are free from snow during only a small part of the cold season, and even then they are so inaccessible that comparatively few men can afford to spend the time necessary to go to them. If on the other hand, a place were provided near by, and the lce kept in condition for skating the greater part of the winter, it is probable that as many students would engage in this form of exercise as take part...
...impracticable, there can surely be no reasonable objection to giving nature the small amount of aid necessary to transform the lower part of Norton's Field into a pond. There was very fair skating on this field for several days last winter. Skating throughout the greater part of the cold weather may be assured merely by making provision for letting on enough water from time to time to form a thin sheet over the field; this would freeze in one night and renew the ice surface when it had become roughened by use or covered by snow. The expense certainly...
...turning Holmes Field into a skating pond for the winter months, though not new is excellent, and the arguments given in favor of it remove the objections which have been urged against it. Skating is the finest exercise which can be had in the open air in the cold season, and an opportunity to enjoy it near at hand would be welcomed by a large body of students who spend their afternoons in hot rooms, because they have not time to go to Fresh Pond, or Arlington, or Jamaica Pond. The gymnasium is undeniably unable to reach many...