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...rule forbidding carriers to remain in the office beyond the time required for arranging the letters for their routes, forces those who have not time to go home, either out upon the street, or into the cellar, which is always damp and ill-ventilated and the floor of which is in rainy weather actually covered with water...
Owing to the damp weather there was no music in the yard last night by the Glee and Banjo Clubs...
Considering the damp and chilly weather, and the rain-soaked track, the excellence of the performances was very remarkable. As it was, five intercollegiate records were broken, and if the day had been favorable, several more might also have gone. It caused no great surprise to see Hickok make new marks in the weight throwing events, for it was known that he had often done so in practice, but the other three records were unexpected...
...weather in Pittsburg was damp and dismal, and the men were not sorry when the train started Thursday afternoon for Cleveland. The members of the clubs had a much needed rest of a day here, and on Friday gave the best concert of the trip. The musical clubs of Harvard, Yale and Princeton all gave concerts in Cleveland within one week and some of the alumni of the three colleges proposed giving a cup to the clubs that gave the best concert. A committee of judges was appointed, but the plan was finally given up. A dance was given...
...undergone, so that most of the ancient landmarks are obliterated which connect it with names already mentioned, the school at which Harvard may have been a pupil, and which Queen Elizabeth founded, disappeared, and the building which it now occupies, nearer Southwark bridge, is already dingy with the damp and smoke of sixty years...