Word: weather
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Many students have expressed a desire to have a racket court. It is obvious that it would be an additional inducement to exercise. And, during the months when the weather is too bad to be out, it would supply to a great extent the place of out-door sports. Those who are acquainted with rackets know what a fine game it is ; and if it is once introduced it is sure to be as popular as any sport we have. The very novelty of the game would insure its success at first, a success that its real worth would afterwards...
THREE years ago several of the leading clergymen of Boston occupied, on different Sunday evenings, the Chapel pulpit; and the result was that on these occasions the Chapel was crowded to its utmost capacity. At Cambridge Sunday is at best a dull day, especially when the cold weather prevents us from attending church in Boston; and if means were taken to enable the students to hear, on successive Sunday evenings, such men as Phillips Brooks, Edward Everett Hale, and James Freeman Clarke, the service would be thoroughly appreciated by the students...
...return match with the Yale Freshmen, postponed from Thursday because of the rain, was played last Saturday on the Boston base-ball grounds. On account, doubtless, of the weather, only about three hundred people witnessed the game. Besides the severe cold, the grounds could hardly have been in a worse condition, dry spots being rather the exception than the rule. The game, under the circumstances, naturally failed to be a remarkably brilliant one. The playing of the Yale men, however, had improved noticeably since the match at New Haven. Their determination to win, too, was very apparent, making the game...
...notice that the weather reports have reappeared on the bulletin board. The letter-box appeared last week; now for the fire-escapes...
UNLESS there is a decided change in the weather next week, the float will not be taken up until some time in December...