Word: skis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard Ski Club will sponsor "Revolution in Skiing," a movie depicting American and European slalom and downhill stars in action, tonight at 8 in the New Lecture Hall. Tickets for the film, which is narrated by Victor Coty, are $1.25 at the Coop or at the door...
This evening's show is a benefit performance planned by the Ski Club to raise money for the skiing team, which was removed from the lists of University-subsidized sports by an H.A.A. decision last summer...
...however rewarding crew may be as a sport, many important advantages accrue to the ski enthusiast. Surrounded by snow, with the cold wind whipping across his face, ski poles in hand and poised to make the suicide slalom run, he suddenly realizes that he is a member of a team. There is togetherness and camaraderie in skiing; Men against Nature, the spirit of conquest, adventure and the Great Outdoors...
Pity the poor skier who faces life without that sense of inevitability, without knowing whether or not there will be a ski team next year. The constant terror of non-existence is ever before...
...crew, because crew is an old and traditional sport; it is contained within the multitudes of the meaning of Harvard. And besides, it has an overwhelming reserve of alumni financial support. All of which does to prove, of course, that the University has learned that it's easier to ski down a hill than to row up a hill against the current...