Word: winterer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
HANOVER, February, 1882. That news is very scarce at this period of the college year in Hanover, no one, who has inhabited the place for a winter, can reasonably doubt. In fact, although Hanover is a splendid place in summer, we shall have to admit that in winter it is rather tame, to say the least. The snow has been at work for the last week, taking its day off and on, regularly, so that, by this time, the place has begun to exhibit its usual winter aspect, thus fulfilling the prophecy of the "oldest inhabitant" that Hanover never gets...
...authorized to complete, as soon as possible, the arrangements for securing for Dartmouth its share of the space in the new book, and to furnish new songs as soon as they should be inspired by Apollo. The meeting was then resolved into an athletic assembly, and the question of winter athletics was brought upon the board. After some discussion, it was voted that athletics be held some time in March, and a committee was appointed to make arrangements. The programme, as made up so far, will contain boxing, fencing, horizontal and parallel bar practice, vaulting and, perhaps...
...several amusing incidents in the career of different speakers of the House, and described the whole day's doings so happily that the listeners could almost believe they had been there, eye-witnesses to it all. The lecture on Papacy was equally good, and very fully attended. These long winter evenings' entertainments are doubly enjoyed...
There appeared in a recent number of the Bicycling World an article in which it was claimed that the bicycle was a practical road machine for all seasons of the year. The writer gave his experience in winter riding, an asserted that he found very little difficulty in making fair time on the snow. Winter riding on a bicycle may be enjoyable to some, but we must confess a weakness for a sleigh. Numb fingers, slippery going, and frequent and unavoidable falls and dismounts do not seem to us the most enjoyable features of bicycling. Winter, in our opinion...
Prof. Billy Frazer has about thirty pupils in sparring at Harvard. Six are training for the contest in the coming winter meetings of the Athletic Association. Of these one is training for the light-weight, one for the middle-weight, and four for the heavy-weight...