Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...results of these investigations encourage the belief that there are now available materials for glazing our windows which do not possess the fault of window glass in excluding the health-giving rays of sunlight. A comparatively small amount of exposure to sunlight, even during the winter months, at the latitude of Boston has a decidedly beneficial effect...
...well as does the Cel-O-Glass. The waxy coating of the Flex-O-Glass has a tendency to soften in hot sunshine, and dust may then adhere which is not easily washed off. This material is primarily intended, however, for use in animal husbandry to provide protection in winter. During the hot summer months it may be removed and in the fall reinstalled...
Last week several thousand robins, wrens and starlings, migrating from their winter homes, were lost in a fog off New York Harbor. Happily, they found refuge on the steamship, Elbro, anchored near Ambrose Light. Some were killed by dashing themselves against the cabins of the ship. Bird-lovers were touched but, most of the world knew naught of feathered events, at a time when French birdmen had found no refuge and U. S. birdmen were preparing to migrate across the Atlantic...
Consideration of the records of winter sports shows the balance all on the side of the University. For the past two years Harvard hockey and indoor track teams have won the Intercolleglate titles in these two branches of athletics. The Ellice series always closes the schedule for the Crimson skaters, and in 1926 Captain Thayer Cumings '26 led his men through two whirlwind games with the Yale puck chasers. 4 to 0 and 2 to 0 scores told the story of Harvard superiority on the ice for a season in which lack of an arena of their own greatly handicapped...
...winning the Intercollegiate Indoor track title twice from a large field of colleges, the Crimson forces scored indirect triumphs over the Blue team, which loomed each year as a titular threat. Winter minor sports honors for 1926 and 1927 have in each case gone to Yale by a margin of three sports to two. The Harvard squash and basketball players have emerged triumphant in their engagements with the Elis, while in wrestling, fencing and indoor polo the Yale grapplers, swordsmen and riders have prevailed