Word: pond
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There seems to be a feeling prevalent in the college that three dollars is much to give for the use of a skating pond during the season. The price is really low. We can compare it only to the annual fee of the Weld Boat Club, which is five dollars, and to that of the Tennis Association, which is seven...
...three dollars paid toward flooding and fencing Holmes Field would entitle the subscriber to the free use of a pond cleaned from the Cambridge muckers, constantly overflowed and kept free from snow, within a minutes walk from the college yard. In order then to make the scheme a success, those who are interested in it must come forward and give it their support...
...attention is called to the notice about skating which appears in another column. The blue-books and the blanks which have been placed in certain stores are simply for the purpose of forming an estimate of the number of men who wish to see the scheme of a skating pond on Holmes put into practice. The matter has been actively taken in hand by one or two men who have talked with the Athletic Committee and who must know just how many students are in sympathy with them before they can go further with the matter. If only...
...these or any other reasons the flooding of Holmes Field be 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...
...heartily endorse the ideas expressed in the communication on skating. The suggestion with regard to 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...