Word: winterizing
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...meeting will be the largest indoor tournament held in Boston during the winter. The Harvard entries are very numerous, and there should be a large Harvard contingent to encourage them...
...inclined to agree with the Advocate in its willingness to let the winter meetings "go by the board." On the contrary we are glad that the Athletic Association has decided to hold three meetings this year and has promised to spare no effort to make them successful. These meetings have not been given in the past to repay our obligations to the many athletic clubs which have thrown their meetings open to Harvard entries. For that purpose we think, with the Advocate, that it would be well to give a large open meeting in the spring. But the winter meetings...
...will be generally admitted that there are some features of past winter meeting which should go by the board. The wrestling events can be dropped with advantage. The number of men who are interested in this branch of athletics is not large, and the bouts are always stupid and tiresome. The spectators, as well as the athletes, like events that go with more snap. The fencing and broadswords contests of last year were new and interesting. The executive committee of the II. A. A. should exert itself to make up programs which will be as far as possible fresh...
...order to get get good men for high jumping and shot putting the Yale A. A will hold two gymnasium contests every week during the winter term...
...been assured by the completion of the subscription among the graduates of Harvard, Yal Princeton and Columbia for the purchase of a suitable challenge trophy, is interfering as showing a possible tendency wards contests among the colleges in intellectual athletics, so to speak. The ? debates between Harvard and Yale ? winter illustrate the same tendency. ? interesting speculation may arise whether such contests would ever gain the pro+++ nence and importance in the undergraduate mind that the physical exhibitions now hold. It is hardly probable that they will ever be so popular with the public, but it is entirely conceivable that among...