Word: winters
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...executive committee of the Free Wool Club met last evening and laid plans for the coming winter. It was decided to hold regular meetings once a month, the first to come the second week in November. Efforts will be made to secure ex-President Cleveland and other prominent men to address the club on the reform of the tariff and kindred subjects. The club begins the year in a flourishing condition with about seventy-five members and promises to take a prominent place among the numerous similar societies in college...
...year and commenting on the needs of the Association. Following that was the report of the treasurer, showing that though the expenses had been cut down as far as possible, yet the cost of some much needed repairs to the track, together with the comparatively small proceeds of the winter meeting had left the society in debt to the amount of about $400. The following are the officers elected for the ensuing year: President, E. Sturgis, '90; Vice-president, J. P. Hutchinson, '90; Treasurer, S. V. R. Crosby, '91; Secretary, J. H. Hunt...
...required for the erection is secured, but there yet remains $20,000 to be pledged. The committee will, however, meet in New York in a few days to select plans for the gymnasium, and it is hoped by the students that ground will be broken before winter sets...
...team. Several strong players have come from preparatory schools in the entering freshman class. Among these are Trafford and Upton, the catchers, respectively of Exeter and Andover academy teams. Both of these men are now playing football but will be candidates for the nine at the beginning of winter training. One other promising man is Soule, '93, who has been short-stop on Exeter's team for two years...
During the summer vacation, the astronomers at the observatory have been by no means idle, but even harder at work than in the winter. The most interesting piece of news from this department is the generous gift of $50,000, by Miss C. W. Bruce, of New York, for a photographic telescope. The instrument will be made with a double lens, a new form not yet adopted by European astronomers, but considered by Professor Pickering far superior to single lens telescopes. It will have an aperture of twenty-four inches. Its focal length will be short, and consequently it will...