Word: winter
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Yesterday morning the CRIMSON took its stand against abolition of winter sports and stated the reasons that have been repeated so often throughout the long one-sided discussion. The unfair discrimination that would follow the passing of this pending vote is further dealt with in communications this morning, and it is useless to dwell longer on that phase of the question...
...outset it must be generally conceded that but for the Faculty recommendations the Committee would never have contemplated legislation against winter sports, nor to any extent against any of the existing schedules. As the CRIMSON pointed out back in January,--when accused of failing to distinguish between Faculty and athletic authorities, and when assured that the Faculty action was but a passing whim,--any recommendation from the Faculty of Harvard University is bound to carry enormous weight. The statement was justified, for the Athletic Committee now feels compelled to take some definite action. Much as many members of the Committee...
...first the CRIMSON opposed any proposition to curtail the number of intercollegiate contests, and our opinion is in no wise altered. We have no faith in the necessity for curtailment or restriction of any kind, not to mention an absolute and unqualified abolishing of intercollegiate contests in all the winter sports. Throughout the year we have taken up in detail the many and varied arguments in favor of intercollegiate sport: its power in holding the undergraduate community together, its good effects upon the participants both morally and physically, its power as an outlet for the energy that in any event...
Public Speaking and Reading.--Development of the Voice; Oral Reading and Discussion; Platform Speaking; Oral Reading of English Classics. Professor F. L. Winter and Mr. B. G. Willard...
...last year, but has been light for the greater part of the time on account of the poor condition of the track. The men are in good physical condition and have been worked out sufficiently to give the coaches a better line on them than was possible from the winter work. A full flight of ten hurdles was put up yesterday for the first time. Next week the training table will be started at Memorial Hall with about 20 men and will be moved to the Union after the Easter recess...