Word: warming
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...large number of men reported last week for the first week of track practice in the Stadium. Owing to the warm weather the track has been in fairly good condition since Tuesday and is getting harder every day. The track practice has been light, in order that the men may become accustomed to out-of-door work. The sprinters have as a rule taken short runs, and the distance men have run two or three laps. All the field event men are now practicing under the supervision of Mr. Quinn, and the shot-putters and hammer-throwers now work behind...
...football authorities have decided not to have any spring practice this year, as they find it more advisable to urge the football men to participate in easier and more pleasurable forms of exercise during the warm weather...
...Kipling. "The Holly Tree," by H. Fairfield '10, is an attempt, in rather uneven verse, to give atmosphere to a place which for most of us has not even tradition. Taken all in all the number is a good antidote to take against winter cheerlessness. If it has no warm sunshine it has often a fairly successful lime-light substitute...
...what does he do then? Sit down and warm a seat and cheer the others? Not he! He isn't that kind of a six-pence. If he can't do one thing he does another. If he can't row he tries cricket or Rugby, or association, or hockey, or lacrosse, or track athletics, or something else. He doesn't suck his thumbs or sit and holler "Oxford!" "Oxford!" He is fond of exercise, a couple of hours of it every day and he will have it. The result of this is he is always having or preparing...
That has long kept their memory warm...