Marvelous, bright and cool. Arose 9 A.M. Breakfast in room. Cleaned up. H.H. and I skating at Arena. To room. Odds and ends. Dinner at Arlington. Walked around town. To market, out along piers etc. Bowled spindles. 90-82. To room. Wrote letter to M.L.S. To Supper at Arlington. To see "The Virginian." Ate. To bed 12 P.M.
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Arlington is a town about 9 miles from the campus of Boston University, where Hanford attended school. I'm not sure why Stanford was in Arlington, but probably he was lodging there.
I have not been able to find information on spindle bowling, but I think the pins may be similarly shaped to candlepins. They are equally hard to knock down, apparently, judging from Stanford's score.
The Virginian was a play that premiered in 1904, based on the book by Owen Wister. It was also a movie released in 1914, and then again in 1929 and as a TV show later. It's not clear what version Stanford saw, but it's likely it was the play, since movies generally do not stay in the theaters that long.
The Arena was presumably the Boston Arena, where Stanford and Hanford skated and where the hockey teams of area colleges played. Below is some information, taken from Wikipedia, on Matthews Arena, as it is known today.
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Arlington is a town about 9 miles from the campus of Boston University, where Hanford attended school. I'm not sure why Stanford was in Arlington, but probably he was lodging there.
I have not been able to find information on spindle bowling, but I think the pins may be similarly shaped to candlepins. They are equally hard to knock down, apparently, judging from Stanford's score.
The Virginian was a play that premiered in 1904, based on the book by Owen Wister. It was also a movie released in 1914, and then again in 1929 and as a TV show later. It's not clear what version Stanford saw, but it's likely it was the play, since movies generally do not stay in the theaters that long.
The Arena was presumably the Boston Arena, where Stanford and Hanford skated and where the hockey teams of area colleges played. Below is some information, taken from Wikipedia, on Matthews Arena, as it is known today.
History[edit]
Originally named Boston Arena,[4] the arena opened on April 16, 1910 for an ice show.[3] The first games of professional ice hockey took place in March 1911 when a two-game $2,500 competition between two NHA teams, the Montreal Wanderers and the Ottawa Senators took place.[5] As the successor NHL's first United States-located professional ice hockey franchise, on December 1, 1924, the Boston Bruins played their first-ever NHL regular season game at the Arena,[3] leaving in 1928 when the Boston Garden was built. The Boston Celtics played their first game at the Arena in 1946, and played at the Arena until 1955.[3] The WHA's New England Whalers played their first season at the Arena from 1972 until 1973.
Matthews is where the hockey programs of Boston College, Boston University, Harvard, MIT, Northeastern University, Tufts University and Wentworth Institute of Technology all began; in particular, it housed the Boston University hockey team until 1971, when Walter Brown Arena was built.
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