Word: skied
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Varsity Ski team is being organized under the supervision of the Mountaineering Club and the H.A.A. The new activity is open to all undergraduates, including Freshmen, who are to receive regular physical education credit for participation. Until the conclusion of the coming season, the new sport will be under the guidance of the Mountaineering Club. At that time a captain and secretary will be elected to manage next year's team...
...Irving Langmuir at 51 remains inquisitive. His current scientific fun is to study the formation of ice on Lake George, N. Y. where he has a camp. Somehow wintertime always fascinated him. He learned to ski and sail-skate in Switzerland, has skiied throughout the Catskills and Adirondacks, climbed Mounts Washington and Marcy on skiis...
Contests in skiing, ski-jumping, speed skating, figure skating, and snowshoeing were engaged in, and soon intercollegiate competition became the order of the day, such opponents as McGill, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Princeton being taken...
...rate, according to the college chroniclers, the new era began in 1910 when Fred H. Harris of Brattleboro, Vermont, the first proficient ski runner and ski jumper to enter Dartmouth, awakened and organized those outdoor instincts which had been dormant so long. A gathering of some twenty-five students and a few faculty men discussed ways and means for getting the college out of doors in winter; and a public meeting shortly afterwards, gave birth to the Dartmouth Outing Club, with 50 or 60 enthusiastic members. On successive Saturdays this primeval flock of snowshoera waddled noisily forth from the campus...
...idea originated in London where Southern Ry. starts its trains out of Paddington Station, runs them about 40 mi. into the country. The excursionists then hike about 20 mi., meet a return train. Last winter Boston & Maine tried such trips for ski enthusiasts, running along branch lines until a good spot was found. This summer Southern Ry. (U. S.) has tried the plan. The first trip started from Cincinnati, cost $1.75. Passengers danced in a baggage car, got off at Lexington, Ky., motored to High Bridge, fed, frolicked and were brought back. The second trip was from Washington to Charlottesville...