Word: winter
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...philosophy is eligible to membership. This year there are ninety-six members, an increase of about twenty over last year. Almost all the American colleges are represented. It is safe to say that there is no where else in the country such a large body of philosophical students. This winter the meetings are held the second Monday of each month...
...each term. The student's knowledge will be decided by the character of his daily recitations and by short examinations during the term. By means of abolishing the final examinations the fall term will, after this year, be continued until December 24, and the winter term will commence in January, which means a material decrease in the length of the Christmas vacation. The Thanksgiving recess of four days is also abolished, and a new regulation as to the time for beginning the college year cuts a week from the summer vacation...
...strength which often results from athletic games, but rather the graceful, vigorous bodies which gymnasium work developes. We are not speaking against athletic contests; they are important and they have their place, but they should not be allowed to drive out gymnastics. The more the gymnasium is used this winter, the more the students will show that they are taking a logical and sensible view of the advantages offered them here at Harvard...
...Endicott Peabody of Groton addressed the St. Paul's Society last night, and then laid before them a plan for a Boys Club to be founded in Boston this winter. Poor boys in large cities have almost no home life and have hardly any pleasure. In a winter as hard as this is sure to be they will be especially badly off and so this is a very good time to start a club. The idea is to have two rooms in some crowded part of Boston, probably near Florence street, and in one of these to have a gymnasium...
...that to join these classes one does not need to be an athlete. Attention will be given to each man. The work at first is elementary and is never of the hardest kind. The classes last year were very successful, and one of the most pleasant events of the winter meetings was the work of the advanced members of these classes...