Word: skis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Putney School grew, Director Hinton kept the pioneer spirit fiercely alive. Her blue-jeaned charges learned their math and history in the mornings; in the afternoons they learned how to ski, tend cows, or run a blacksmith's shop. There were no rigid schedules of weekly exams, no report cards-not even football teams. After hours, students were urged to strike out on their own projects, e.g., sonnet-writing, musical composition, working with wrought iron. Nor were the sexes kept apart. Said one recent alumnus: "There is no 'problem.' After you've worked all afternoon around...
Kaye and Crosby play a couple of singers who meeting in the army, become enormous successes in the post-war world, sort of mature Martin and Lewis types. They and a pair of insipid girl singers put on a musical comedy at a small but snowless Vermont ski resort, thus saving the investment of their former commanding general, a stern disciplinarian, but really a nice guy underneath. They succeed...
...chubbers, first organized as the DOC in 1909, have split into various sub-groups. The three major subsidiaries are Winter Sports, which sponsors the College ski team, Cabin and trail, which maintains a chain of mountain hostels, and a Carnival division. In addition, there are the Ledyard Canoe club, the Ski Patrol, the Mountaineering club, and Bait and Bullet...
Frederick B. Churchill '55 of Belmont, Mass., and Winthrop House has been elected president of the Harvard Ski Club for 1954-55. Thacher W. White '56 of New Britain, Conn., and Eliot House will be the vice-president and Charles H. Thomas '56 of Newport, R.I., and Lowell House, secretary-treasurer...
...varsity ski team joined with a number of former Crimson ski stars to win the Harvard-Dartmouth Ski Slalom, 876.9 seconds to 1049.4. It was the varsity's last regular meet of the season...