Word: rink
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...reported that the Bicycle Club have engaged for the winter the building formerly occupied by John Wilson & Son. The lower story will be used as a storeroom for bicycles, and the upper floor for a rink or a tennis court...
LAST Tuesday afternoon, a little while before dinner, I was down at the Rink. The place was full of skaters, good and bad; round the circle, on the outside, swung happy couples; in the centre two or three stylish young men were solemnly going through the most wonderful evolutions, to the delight of the children peeping through the ventilators; and in one corner two bright-eyed, rosy-cheeked girls were practising a graceful figure which I had never seen. They knew I was watching them; for I heard the light-haired one ask the other if I were...
...Master of the Rolls - for whose functions we refer the curious to the students of History VII. - has forbidden the proprietor of the Cambridge rink to let out for hire skates of any description. The undergraduates are consequently in despair...
...least, unique. Particulars of the plan, however, are not given, and we are left to conjecture how often the water would be changed and the tank washed out, and whether it would be kept warm in the winter or allowed to freeze up, to serve as a skating rink. It is doubtless true that "Charles River is no longer fit to bathe in, because of the sewage which is discharged into it, and there are no public baths which are accessible to the students," and it is perhaps advisable that the College should undertake to furnish the facilities we lack...
...true spirit of winter one ought to skate, I think, and that not in a rink, but on a lake or river, where one can look off to the hills and woods and feel the keen air. Now that club skates, star and acme skates, have come into fashion, we need not pinch our feet with the barbarous straps or numb our fingers in making our preparations to get on the ice. One difficulty in skating there certainly is in Cambridge: the only available lake is Fresh Pond, and it is almost impossible to make sure of there being smooth...