Word: winter
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...pointed out by Dean Briggs, Mr. Garcelon, and Dr. Sargent, it is exceedingly desirable to have a suitable gymnasium for winter athletics. In that period of the year when out-of-door exercise is at its lowest ebb, many men go without any form of physical activity rather than use the Hemenway Gymnasium,--a state of affairs which must be changed immediately. In the words of the donor of the present building, "the best thing for the College to do would be to construct an entirely new gymnasium to combine the finest features of the best college gymnasiums...
...there must be a rule regulating the number of sports in which any one person can compete, why not have a wise one? Why seriously handicap our winter sports and why force the athlete to take his exercise or his amusement in some form which may not be of benefit to him, and can be of no benefit to the University? "Ecrasez l'infame" and if we must have regulation, pray let it be wise. SENIOR
Professor Merriman writes with bubbling enthusiasm of the winter quarter. The articles of interest on the last few months include one on the late Dean Wright by his temporary successor, Professor Smyth, loving and sympathetic in tone towards one to whose unfailing kindness all graduate students of recent years owe a debt never to be forgotten. Dean Haskins is welcomed in a cordial editorial. Mr. R.H. Dana as laudator temporis acti shows that last year's success in rowing is due to a return to earlier ways. Professor Jackson gives a review of the work of the late Wolcott Gibbs...
...training all year. Even if he were not physically able to do this, no harm would be done, for the captains of the major teams to which he belonged would see to it that he did not hurt himself by participation in any of the winter sports...
...finals of the third annual winter track carnival were held Saturday afternoon, the field events taking place in the Hemenway Gymnasium and the track events on the board track on Holmes Field. The holding of the trials on Friday had greatly reduced the number of competitors, with the result that the events were run off quickly and without the usual uninteresting elimination heats. The relay race, in which only three teams were entered, was won by the Mt. Auburn street team, which set a new record. Cups were awarded to those winning first and second places and to the members...