Word: winter
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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When the Harvard Dining Association was in the throes of despair last winter in its attempts to maintain a respectably large membership and at the same time keep down the price of the general board, the Corporation decided to lend its aid. A fixed guaranty of four dollars was finally decided upon and the new scheme of allowances for absences and the establishing of table for transients seemed at the time to warrant the guaranty. After the guaranty was removed, however, the boarders were left to the tender mercies of the Association and the Corporation withdrew...
...organize a Speakers' Club in the University will be held in Lawrence 1, Friday afternoon, at 5.15 o'clock. The committee of arrangements, which was appointed at the first meeting, J. C. Bills '09, chairman, will report perfected plans for the complete organization of the club. Professor I. L. Winter '86 and A. A. Ballantine '04 will address the meeting. The former will speak on the purposes for which the club is to be founded and the latter upon the club organization. Announcement of details will be made later. All who attended the first meeting and others interested in public...
...followed the idea of floating with the ice-packs, but it had to be abandoned because of lack of coal; the Fram, under Nansen, had started from the wrong point. Mr. Baldwin advocates starting during the summer, so that by the time the ice-floes have been reached, winter will have set in and the cold will freeze the open sea around the ship, forcing it to float with the current. The Arctic regions would provide innumerable opportunities for geographical studies and for the investigation of the upper air currents. New forms of life could be discovered. In addition...
Professor I. L. Winter '86 described the purpose of the club and emphasized the importance of its being made a permanent organization. He proposed that topics of local interest be discussed; that a certain part of the work of the meetings be prepared previously; that the meetings be made public occasionally; and that a critic be present and give advice to the individual speakers. Professor G. P. Baker '87 suggested that public meetings should be held as often as possible...
...committee consisting of J. C. Bills '09, A. S. Ford sC., J. V. Martin sC., F. F. A. Pearson '11 and R. H. Smith '10, with Professor Winter as adviser, was appointed to consider the various suggestions made and to call the next meeting of the club...