Word: winter
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Winter track work will begin this year, as usual, immediately after the Christmas vacation. On Thursday, January 4, there will be a meeting of all candidates for the University team, at which an outline of the work will be presented and men prominent in track athletic will speak...
...Mathematical Club was originally conducted as the Mathematical Conference. However, little enthusiasm was shown, and last winter the present Club was formed. Meetings are usually held every other Tuesday evening in Phillips Brooks House. At these meetings professors and students alternate in reading papers. This gives men who are trying for graduation with distinction an opportunity to read their papers, as well as specialize in their subjects. After the discussion, which follows all papers, refreshments are served. All men taking advanced courses in mathematics or physics are eligible for membership in the club. At the next meeting on December...
Work will be begun today on a new system for draining Soldiers Field, for which a plan by Professor H. J. Hughes has recently been accepted by the Athletic Committee. During the winter about a dozen catch basins will be built to drain the surface water. Below these will be driven wooden piles to prevent the basins from sinking into the soft ground. A series of small, underground porous tiles will connect the large pipes already installed and leading directly into the Charles River...
...first of the University teas for the year will be held this afternoon from 4 to 6 o'clock, in Brooks Parlor, Phillips Brooks House. The object of these teas, which will be held every Friday afternoon throughout the winter, is to provide an opportunity for students to meet one another informally, and to bring them in closer touch with the officers of the University and their families, some of whom will be present at each tea. As in former years, the teas will be managed by a committee of the wives of certain members of the Faculty...
Work has been started on the skating rink in the south end of the Stadium to be used by the University hockey team during the winter. The rink will be 180 feet long and 80 feet wide, surrounded by a wooden wall four feet high. Outside of this, loam will be placed to prevent the water from leaking. As soon as the weather is cold enough, the field will be flooded by means of a hydrant...