Word: winter
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...should like to call attention to the strange neglect of the fives courts in the Carey Building. During the winter months the demand for indoor exercise at harvard has always been very great; the gymnasium and bowling alleys are often crowded, and every blank wall available is in demand for handball. That so good a game as fives should be ignored is a matter not only of regret, but of surprise. A careful enquiry has convinced me that not one man in three knows that the courts exist; and even those who do know it have never expressed their desire...
...courts were built to give the baseball men a chance to keep in training during the winter months. Certainly no game is better adapted to cultivate agility and endurance. During the present winter, however, I have never found anybody in them, though I have used them almost daily; and it does not appear that that they have ever been used to any extent, except perhaps in the spring. Even those men who do use them apparently do not understand the game. The so called "pepper boxes" which add so much to the interest and excitement of the sport have recently...
...Philadelhia. The Garrick Club is a dramatic organization which has existed for about two years, having as its object the presentation of plays of acknowleged literary excellence. The coming performance will be given on the evening of December 16. The club will give several other performances during the winter...
...Saturday evening, December 12, at 7 o'clock, in Upper Dane, the Harvard Chess Club will play a team match with the Phillips Andover Club. The P. A. Club was organized last winter, and is a pioneer among chess clubs in preparatory schools. Although individual members of the two clubs have often met, next Saturday for the first time the two clubs as such will play a match...
...Vesper Services will be short and the choral programme will be similar to yesterday's, throughout the winter. The choir will not begin on Christmas music until the Sunday before Christmas...