Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...longer will the visiting royalty, the grand opera star stranded in the midst of the Puritans, the very haute monde, automatically head for the classical frigidity of the Copley-Plaza. No more will the debutante spend her long winter evenings under the Louis Quatorze shelter of the Somerset. Hotels--in great abundance--are coming to Boston...
...lacrosse. In the major contests, however, the victory of the powerful Blue eight gave Yale an eleventh hour advantage as far as spring sports went, and evened up the count for the whole year, a hockey win and football tie having placed Harvard ahead at the end of the winter months...
...place it is merely aphoristic to remark that before there can be a want there must be a lack. Freshmen are still being fed regularly and adequately and like the grasshoppers are likely to enjoy the present season of harvest and plenty without much thought for the coming dark winter in Grecian one-arm establishments...
...long awaited report of the Dartmouth Athletic Council on the football proposals referred to it by President Hopkins last winter is surprising both in the clear and concise manner of its statement and the general favor which it accords to the primary aims of the Dartmouth head. True it disagrees outright with one suggestion and expresses considerable doubt as to the efficacy of another, while supporting the most revolutionary of the proposals in full. But even as it refuses to acknowledge the "thought that college football anywhere has been so exploited beyond all other college activities as to seriously...
...mere score, there is sufficient cause besides that of a striving for improvement for the elimination of the February General Examinations. Undoubtedly the various Departments have felt the ravages incurred by the comparative excellencies of the two sets of ingulsitions, for previously the questions asked in the winter papers have been accepted as more or less of an indication of those which would not be asked in the following spring or at least which would be passed over lightly. Henceforth the June Generals will be the be-all and end-all--as is their proper function...