Word: slides
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There are now over two hundred toboggans at the Corey Hill club house. The chute of the slide is about 1400 feet long, but when in good condition the toboggans go way beyond that distance...
...very probable that Exeter Academy will add another toboggan slide to the already long list of those existing in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. It is proposed to organize a club of one hundred members with a membership fee of $4.00; non-members shall be obliged to pay for admission or can obtain season tickets at rates to be hereafter decided...
Several members of Yale have joined the Toboggan Club, are disgusted to find that they can take ladies or nonresidents only to the slide...
...Toboggan slides have been built this winter all over the country. Williams has a college slide. Other colleges seek in tobogganing what they necessarily miss in their usual outdoor sports. But Harvard looks with indifference upon tobogganing and the erection of a slide. Cambridge has a magnificient newly erected toboggan slide; Brookline nightly draws from our number of student tobogganers. But this is all outside of the college. No, skating and tobogganing are not among our traditional list of college sports, so of course cannot possibly find their way into that list. New England exclusiveness must prevail here also...
...college community exposed to the constant risk of being taken off their feet by the runners of the little coasters as they come flying down the slope. If these innocent children had any conception of the danger they occasion the college "grind," they would immediately desert this well-worn slide and turn the prows of their sleds toward the side of the hill that slopes down to Harvard Street. Will not some authorized person inform these little sinners of the inceptive crimes they commit every...