Word: winter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...revival of the old game of Hockey has taken place during the past winter in England, and it has regained considerable of its former popularity. Hockey clubs are being organized throughout the country. The rules have undergone a complete revision, and several changes in the method of play have been adopted, with a view of increasing the science of the game and rendering the players less liable to injury. The game as played under these rules bears a strong resemblance to football. There are eleven men on each side, and the team is organized very much the same...
...Athletic Association began the year with the nominal surplus of $8; but there were unpaid bills amounting to $60. In order to meet the expenses incidental to the winter meeting, the Association borrowed $300 from the committee. Their receipts from ordinary sources, mainly the sale of membership tickets-have amounted to $302; thus making the total receipts $602. The expenses thus far have amounted to $367. The Association has therefore $235 in cash; and against this is their debt of $300 owed to this committee...
...more than paid the price of purchase from Russia. Besides the seals and fur-bearing animals, there are vast quantities of fish in the neighboring waters, forests which surpass those of Maine, great coal fields, and petroleum and precious metals in abundance. The climate of the southern coast in winter is as mild as that of Virginia, and its only drawback is rain...
...natives is the success of the schools established from the scanty appropriations of the United States, When the first school was opened in Sitka over one hundred boys appeared, eager to be educated, and within a month three hundred adults had also asked permission to attend. When winter came many of the pupils slept in the school room because they could not study in their dark buts. Soon a boarding school was established, which has been constantly swelled in numbers by fugitives from slavery and persecution, and girls, who are now admitted as well as boys. All the people...
...that spring is upon us and the winter's thaw is leaving the ground, we take this early opportunity of urging all to be careful not to walk on the edges of paths, which intersect the college yard. Last spring no such warning was given and the result was that towards the end of April the yard presented a rather wild appearance: corners were trodden down, edges were worn off, whole plots of grass had disappeared. The college authorities naturally saw themselves compelled to restore the yard to its usual well kept condition, but this fact should not be cause...