Word: weather
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Spring, but, believing the majority of our readers to be sufficiently well acquainted with its features, we have thought it superfluous to print them. The ice in the river has broken up, and, the floats being out, rowing is now in order. This is a genuine indication of warmer weather...
...benefit the large number who spend their Saturdays and Sundays at home, nor those who live at a great distance. To these latter it would even be an expense and an inconvenience. The time of year proposed is that characterized by east winds, mud, and all the inclemencies of weather, and the time thus taken would have to be deducted from the beautiful month of September. It is also claimed that any abridgment of the Summer vacation would be a serious loss to the many who devote it to travel in Europe, or in our own country, Such...
...humor are exchanged. This is only the beginning, but we cannot delineate further. Lunch, calls, driving, dinner, theatre, supper, and so forth, follow. There is no break in the possibilities of enjoyment, except perhaps in the afternoon for a couple of hours, when, in this slushy weather, the Park does not substitute the Bois. New York by gaslight, however, is nearly equal to the standard of Parisian brilliancy, and the day can be ended as successfully as begun. A week of this sort of existence is apt to make one lose sight of the fact that he was ever trammelled...
from the following statistics, in which the first column of figures shows the number of rooms occupied by students in the different buildings, the second the number of rooms in which windows were open at 8 A. M. on November 19 (clear weather, thermometer 25 F.), and the third column the number of rooms in which windows were open at the same time on November 20 (partly cloudy, thermometer...
...Started at 9 A. M. Meant to start at 4. Companion, - athletic Freshman. Equipment, - old hats, flannel shirts, double-decked boots, six-foot staves, knapsacks (twenty pounds each), one saucepan, and two tin cups. (We had a little brandy, three pints.) Destination, - unknown. Walked twenty miles before dinner. Weather rather debilitating. Took a little brandy. At 12 M. saw pretty girl blowing dinner-horn at door of farm-house. Stopped for dinner. Dinner bad. Girl pleasant. Freshman asked for lock of her hair. Started again at 1.30. Walked twenty miles. Startled female peasant takes us for brigands. Soothed by sight...