Word: winterizing
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...during commencement week, and the glamour of that delightful period would have its effect on their youthful imaginations. Princeton then is beautiful in the "high tide of June," full of fair visitors, rich with birds and blossems, and with never a hint of the bleak, rainy season of the winter months, nor of the steady grind of second term...
...lamentably deficient in his knowledge of the works of this or that noted writer, and that there are innumerable books, well fitted for perusal during the summer, of which he knows nothing. It is to these books that our summer reading should be directed. For, during the winter period, a person of ordinarily laborious habits can find but little time for becoming acquainted with this class of books, and it is only when the more serious work is laid aside that there can be found a proper leisure for such a purpose. Although Emerson advised no one to read...
Early in the fall the paper hunts or "hare and hounds" chases brought the men together, and until winter set in there were runs or excursions to make the club profitable to its members. During the cold months a number of associate members were added to the organization, and two or three informal "smokers" were held which all the men greatly enjoyed. This spring has shown a revival of out-door work and the race meeting held by the club only a few weeks ago brought to Cambridge much of the best riding talent in the country, making the meeting...
...encouraged, for in many ways it is a most desirable one. In the first place, it proves a most excellent method to get the men out of doors for exercise, a result which is highly commendable by the faculty, if we may judge by their utterances of last winter of the athletic question. Moreover, it may happen that some men will be brought out who can be induced to practice with a view to filling vacancies on the regular teams, though from the playing that has been shown by the scrub nines thus far this season, this result...
...Newton Highlands. He was the oldest son of Moses G. Crane. He prepared for Harvard at the Newton High School and entered the freshman class in the fall of 1880. His great physical strength gained for him one of the foremost places in college athletics. At the winter meetings of his sophomore year he won first prizes in both wrestling and rope-climbing. He also held a prominent place on the University foot-ball team in both his junior and senior years, and as a member of the tug of-war team which represented Harvard at the last inter-collegiate...