Word: winters
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...compelled to resign office owing to continued ill health. President Barnard is now seventy-nine years old and has held his present position for over twenty years. Since the beginning of this college year he has only been able to attend two faculty meetings, and has passed the winter months in Florida in the expectation of recuperating enough to be enabled to attend his college duties during the spring term. The only reason that can be given for President Barnard's clinging so tenaciously to leadership of Columbia's interests, is his desire to fill out a term of twenty...
...entitled to the preference in the gymnasium and elsewhere" and that those who have only good health in view are "Crowded out and become discouraged." We venture to say that anyone who could make such an assertion as that can never have visited the Hemenway gymnasium on a winter afternoon, or have seen one of the many "scrub matches in baseball and football, which take place every year...
...York, in response to Columbia's invitation, to represent Harvard at the intercollegiate tournament. This is another sign of the activity which has characterized the club this year under its energetic president, W. J. A. Bliss, '88. A tournament open to the college was held in the winter, and the large number of entries showed that a lively interest in chess exists among the students. Since that time the membership of the club has increased considerably, and the meetings have been numerous and well attended. The club intends to secure a room, and will probably be established...
...Hall at present that the food served has been of better quality and more carefully prepared than heretofore. This has undoubtedly been due both to the demands of the students and to the more earnest attention of the officers to the affairs of the Hall during the past winter. The opportunity is given today and tomorrow to make a selection of officers to carry on the management during the coming year. The spirit of the new Board of Directors will depend much upon the heartiness with which the election is carried out, and it is expected that the members...
...last and shortest term of the college year begins to-day. The slow, uneventful winter term is over at last, and from now until July there will be ceaseless activity. The nine has already begun its practice games; the crews are on the river; the track is in good condition; the lacrosse team is on the field; the tennis courts are being laid out, and everything points to a very lively spring. The spring term is the pleasantest part of the year. There is always something to do or to see. The class races, the H. A. A. games...