Word: skying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hoped by the ski club that the University will provide for a ski coach because it is felt that coaching would greatly reduce the high annual tell of preventable ski accidents among all skiing undergraduates...
Captain Tom Winship and four teammates, Del Ames, Lloyd Butterfield, Roger Wilson, and Alfred Eipper, were victorious over Dartmouth, Yale, Amherst, Middlebury, and Williams ski teams at the Williams carnival Saturday and Sunday. This was the first major ski win within the memory of anyone now in college. Winship finished third and Ames fourth in the downhill, which was held on the Thunderbolt Trail under icy conditions. The jumping was the last event held on the 35 mete hill, where the Crimson team made a perfect record, thus bringing their total score to 465.15 and edging out the Dartmouth second...
...compromise suggested last week by James Henderson Stewart, M. P.: let the Scots wear their kilts until actual fighting begins, then change to the battle dress (like ski suits) which all other British troops wear. Said Scot Stewart: "If a mon does a spot o' plumbin' he p'ts on a plumber's garb, but when it's over, he disnae hae to keep on bein' a plumber...
...would be difficult to conceive of a stronger case in its favor than the Harvard Ski Club has built up in its bid to gain real University support this winter. Backed up by a petition with 568 names, by a 53 page report, and by the recommendations of both the Student Council and the Undergraduate Athletic Council, the ski club can do no more than await the decision of the gods. If skiing does not get an official status as a minor sport, together with some money for the appointment of a first class coach, from the Committee...
Thus far, the support of the University has been purely of a moral kind. In fact, it has only been through the energy and enthusiasm of men like Alee Bright and Captain Tom Winship that large enough contributions were received to build the new ski cabin at Jackson, which has already been a real success despite the snow drought. Not satisfied with that accomplishment, the ski team continued its good efforts in another direction and captured a surprise second in the Intercollegiate meet at Lake Placid over Christmas. They deserve some reward for that...