Word: slide
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Princeton is to have a toboggan slide. It will be built and managed by the instructor in gymnastics...
...Corey Hill Toboggan Club which was organized in Brookline last week elected as officers Frank Leonard Creesy, '82, president; E. W. Baker, '82, secretary; G. W. Joy, '76, treasurer, and Walter G. Chase, '82 on the executive committee. The location selected for the slide is on the north side of Corey Hill, directly opposite the "Hawthorne" and is convenient both to the Allston station and the Longwood Avenue horse cars. Three "shoots" have been built and a club house will be added. Electric lights will be used to illuminate the coast. The limit of membership is almost reached. During...
...toboggan slide has been made back of the reservoir. The ground has been graded and fences removed. This is to be used only by the "elect" of Cambridge...
...address to the students. Mr. Moody spoke earnestly and with rare power illustrating his idea by pungent and interesting anecdotes which captivated his hearers. One very striking illustration will long be remembered by all who heard it. A farmer on one of the northern railroad lines witnessed a land-slide across the railroad track shortly before the time of an express train. It was in the evening. The man could not reach a telegraph station, and lighting a lantern, he started up the track to stop the train. But he fell, as he heard the train approaching, and broke...
...Doesn't sit up to it throughout the whole stroke. Rushes his slide and slumps at the beginning and the end of the stroke. Must be careful to keep his eyes in the boat. Apt to clip his stroke...