Word: winters
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...already equipped with toboggans, and that many more would take an interest in the sport if a slide were built on one of our athletic fields. I am informed that there would probably be no difficulty in obtaining the use of Jarvis, Holmes or Norton's field through the winter, as the slide could be built without injury to the ground. It would be easy to plan a slide of considerable length on these fields. The expense would be small if a large number of men entered into the scheme, and the return for the money would more than repay...
...floats at the boat house has been taken in for the winter; the other will remain until ice forms in the river...
...special meeting of the Natural History Society was held last evening in the society's rooms for the purpose of laying out plans for the coming winter. The president, Professor N. S. Shaler, made an intersting address on the history of the society and its field of work. A committee appointed at the last meeting reported in favor of papers or talks at each meeting as far as possible by members of the society. The report was accepted and it was also voted to begin a systematic study of the natural history of the vicinity by means of field work...
...demands of the preceding season, and yet this seems to be a necessity. Now, more than ever, the bathing facilities of the gymnasium are insufficient for the accomodation of the students during the last part of the afternoon hour, and the inconvenience will of course increase as the winter advances. Particularly is the difficulty felt in the lack of set tubs and shower jets; so much so, in fact, that from five to half past five in the afternoon anywhere from a half to a dozen men are almost constantly in waiting The need in which the gymnasium stands...
Every year sees valuable additions to the lectures of our university, and at no time have these additions been more numerous than at present. Among others, during the coming winter an interesting course will be given on German Literature which will cover in a cursory manner the whole ground of German Literature from the middle ages down to the present century, dwelling most emphatically on the most striking features of this development. By way of pointing out the relation of the literary life of the people to their society and politics it is intended that the lectures shall comprehend...