Word: winter
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Suspense is over at last! The results of the petition have taken a definite form and intercollegiate winter sports are no longer in danger of annihilation. The Committee has expressed itself as convinced that "it is not desirable" to abolish these contests, but gives no definite statement of its policy in the future, preferring to deal with individual schedules rather than with any period as a whole. It accepts the student co-operation most willingly, and will doubtless give the new council every opportunity to prove its worth as a factor in the situation. What promises to be a satisfactory...
...question of abolishing winter sports will in the due course of events come before the Athletic Committee for a final decision at the meeting scheduled for this evening. So long a time has passed since excitement over the matter was at fever heat that a good many have doubtless forgotten that the fate of intercollegiate athletics between December 1 and the spring recess still hangs in the balance. We have been questioned by some about the results of the undergraduate petition and doubt has been expressed as to any actual benefit that can be attributed to the effort...
...matter of fact the fruits of the petition will soon be apparent. When the Athletic Committee meets tonight, it will probably decide the fate of this whole undergraduate movement. If winter sports are saved, and schedules kept up to a point that will not endanger competition, it will be because the Committee believes that the undergraduates have a practical proposition and one that makes concession in the form of extensive curtailment unnecessary. There have been so many slips 'twixt the cup and the lip that we hesitate to predict just what the outcome will be. There is one thing, however...
...amateur performance of sixteen numbers for the benefit of the sufferers of the Chelsea fire will be given in the Boston Theatre this afternoon at 1.30 o'clock. The committee in charge has selected the best features of all the larger local entertainments given during the winter, and the program will be one of the most varied, representative and entertaining given in Boston during the last few years. The University Musical Clubs will play, S. Baird '03 will give several impersonations, and the closing number will be given by firemen who were on duty in Chelsea at the time...
...entertainment for the benefit of the Chelsea sufferers will be given in the Boston Theatre next Monday afternoon at 1.30 o'clock. The Program will include the best features of all the larger entertainments given during the winter by amateurs in Boston, Cambridge and Brookline. There will also be several selections by the University Glee, Banjo and Mandolin Clubs, impersonations by S. Baird '03 and a closing chorus by some of the firemen who were on duty in Chelsea on the day of the fire...