Word: schusser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There comes a time in every schusser's life when he or she must decide the main purpose of skiing. The experts who hurtle nonchalantly down the slopes say it's the actual schussing; others who hurtle awkwardly into snowdrifts aren't so sure; the beginner can't stay on his feet long enough to reach a conclusion. A small portion of male skiers and a far larger female contingent end this conflict by deciding it's the social lift that makes the ski weekend. These, dear reader, are the snowbunnies...
...snowbunny is a discouraged slatser, an aborted expert, a perennial beginner. The bunnies never remain on the slopes long enough to make any headway; but are driven indoors by ten o'clock, where they are content to watch the schusser from plush leather chairs in the base camp. Bunnies are the last to leave the ski lodge and the first to return, just in time for a change and five o'clock cocktails...
First Crimson schusser was Del Ames, who took third place, and following him were Freshman Duncan Reid and Ryden Skinner '37, with fifth and seventh places respectively. Tom Winship was tenth, and five Harvard racers came in directly after him, enough to give the Cantabs the decisive edge...