Word: outdoor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mother Teresa (the name she took when she became a nun) studied nursing and moved into the slums. She organized outdoor schools and set up a dispensary, petitioned the municipal authorities for a shelter to which the dying destitute could be brought. She was given the pilgrim hostel at the gate of Kali's temple in Kalighat, the most ancient quarter of the city, named it Nirmal Hriday (Pure Heart) and went to work...
Harvard men have long suffered the discomfort of not having an inexpensive place near the Quad where they could entertain their dates. This is not a great problem, except at the present season of the year, when the temperature is not conducive to the outdoor practice of the simpler pleasures...
Internal Tick. Skinny Arnie Sowell, the light-foot Pitt Negro with elastic legs, was back in his element, his disappointing summer outdoors and his heartbreaking failure at Melbourne now behind him. He hardly wasted a glance on last year's winner, halfback-sized Tom Courtney of Fordham. On the broad lanes and long straightaways of outdoor tracks, where Courtney could get his weight rolling, things had been different. Sowell had been second best. In the Garden Arnie was at home...
Upperclassmen have even less opportunity and encouragement to learn new sports. This is unfortunate, especially in an area not entirely conducive to outdoor recreation. The rather pitiful physical condition of many undergraduates might be improved if exercise could be made interesting and useful by offering classes in worthwhile sports. This exercise can be obtained in the intra-mural program, but because of lack of ability or pressure, many do not participate in this program. The availability of organized instruction would attract those who need the program most, the hesitant beginners...
...this highly organized commercial effort, that Dartmouth has come a long way since its founding as an Indian Charity School, and that, in the words of its most famous alumnus, Daniel Webster, "It is, gentlemen, a small college, but there are those who love it."Ski-jumping, the last outdoor event of the Carnival, was held last Saturday at the Vale of Tempe, Hanover, N.H. It began to snow that afternoon, which along with the cold, the late start, and the long duration, made it a pleasant afternoon...