Word: skiers
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...prefer the open slope type of skiing. Located in Newton, within ten minutes drive or a half an hour on the trolley, this location is also the nearest to Cambridge and the most accessible. One steep slope of a quarter mile in width has enough trees to delight the skier who likes to run a slalom course at high speed. The only drawback to the Commonwealth slope is that it is apt to have a crowd of tobogganists flying down the hill out of control and obviously out of their minds. It is the Mecca for the orange and green...
...best trail skiing to be found close to Boston is at the trail built by the Massachusetts District Commission on the Blue Hills Reservation. The trail is necessarily short but is much more of a test for the skier than one would expect. The half mile run drops steeply and sharp turns make the trail compare favorably with those in New Hampshire. The trail is apt to be crowded and often becomes too icy for good running. With new snow the trail is inviting to the skier who lacks time to trek north and who appreciates skiing within 20 minutes...
More than 25 undergraduates are expected to turn out for the first meeting of the ski team, to be held this evening at 7:30 o'clock in the Lowell House Common Room. Again, as last year, Charles N. Proctor, former Dartmouth and Olympic skier, will be in charge of the team...
...floor. A modification of the ski-tow, which requires the effort of hanging on, the ski lift will reduce the physical exertion of skiing to almost nil. At regular intervals on a continuous cable moving 400 ft. per minute (a fast walk) are suspended chairs into which the skier may flop without removing his skis...
Leading Harvard skier in last year's race was Colin Maclaurin '38, whose time of 3 minutes, 00.8 seconds in the afternoon trial, gave him third place in total elapsed times...