Word: snow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nagasaki, the historic center of Japanese Catholicism, the crowds were larger: 47,000 stoically endured a freak February blizzard to attend an outdoor Mass. Eventually more than 300 people had to be taken to first-aid stations because they were suffering from exposure to the cold and wet snow...
...some freshmen living in Wigglesworth. Long before the MBTA starts its morning song outside the window, the Harvard ski teams tromp up from the building's basement with their equipment. They leave in the dark, drive across East Somerville to 1-93, and head north in search of snow...
...even with little on-snow time, the ski team posted its best record since entering ECAC division 5 in 1976. Senior alpine captain Eric Klaussen led the surge, becoming the first Harvard skier to go to the NCAA nationals in both slalom and giant slalom since...
...Harvard suffer from their distance to the slopes, as do other less proficient urban-based teams. "It's a problem for cross-country skiers too," Carlo Frnzblau notes, adding "We have to drive out of the city just to find steep hills to work out on when there's snow...
...Most people don't realize we have a Division I team," Dave Rothman pointed out. Another ski team member noted that for all the difficulty they had getting on-snow time, "we don't get any notice in the Crimson, the Indy or the Gazette. The Athletic department doesn't even publish our schedule...