Word: winterizing
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...other colleges in general are worse situated in this respect than we ourselves are. It is but a melancholy satisfaction at best to contemplate the case of the Williams student, regularly driven to two chapel services a day - morning and evening - or of those others who have to hurry, winter and summer, at 7 o'clock or earlier every morning to the cold precincts of the college chapel. Nevertheless these comparisons are interesting as affording a view of what in a certain sense may be called a "survival" of Puritan New England...
...term he shall be admonished, or otherwise dealt with at the discretion of the faculty." "No excuse for absence from Sunday service shall be accepted, unless, when possible, rendered to a member of the faculty previous to the absence." Morning chapel is at 8.50 in the winter, at 7.50 in the summer. Evening chapel is at 5.30 in the winter, at 6 in the summer. The attitude of the faculty on the subject is very strongly, if not unanimously, in favor of the present system. For a long time there has been a desire on the part of the students...
...class of '76 of Dartmouth College records the ingenious devices of a couple of students who wished to light the fires without rising to do it. A correspondent who sends us the following extracts vouches for the accuracy of the statements therein made: "Van. constructed during the winter an apparatus which connected an alarm clock with a system of weights and pulleys, and these again with his stove door, so that when the machine was wound up and properly adjusted it could, at the precise moment agreed upon, ring a bell, wind up a spool, drop a weight, rattle...
...winter sports at Princeton occur today...
...winter meetings approach the question of the best method of disposing of the reserved seats naturally presents itself for consideration. Last year the plan of appointing a time and place for the sale of tickets, and giving to the first comers the first chance, was tried and found to work satisfactory in the main. There were a few details, however, which seem to allow of improvement. The place of sale should be in some place where a line can easily be formed, and where no inconvenience will result from the crowd. Last year the sale of tickets took place...