Word: winters
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Frank P. Sheldon, '89, has settled for the winter in Berlin, where he is devoting himself to a thorough study of the German language...
...authorities, whoever they may be, to provide a new set. It is utterly impossible to do satisfactory work on rowing weights that are so far gone that they cannot be made to offer the slightest resistance, and which, therefore, men cannot possibly handle as they would an oar. These winter months are too valuable to be thrown away; the crews that use them to the best advantage always show it in the class races, but it is perfectly evident that work on such machines as those which are at present in the rowing room, will not enable any team...
Nearly every year at one time or another, there is ice on Holmes Field, formed there from the melting snow, and if the field were overflowed there could be skating there the greater part of the winter. But if the baseball management or college authorities object to this why could it not be done to Norton's Field? It is much larger, there is no grass to hurt, and it would take comparatively little money to have it made to hold water, and indeed there is always quite a large amount of water after every rain. This would have...
...Peabody, president of the University of Illinois, will, like Presidents Seelye, of Amherst, and Gilman, of Johns Hopkins, spend the winter abroad...
...expenses during the last college year were $10,076.17, of which $3.496 was paid for a new steam-launch an unusual expense, which was met chiefly by graduate subscriptions; $880 went for new boats, and $500 for the for the tank in which the crews practice rowing during the winter. The total receipts of the season were $9,918,03, leaving a deficit of $158,14-a very creditable showing. The leading sources of income with the amounts derived from each, were as follows...