Word: weather
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...notice that the practice of posting the weather reports on the bulletin board in front of University has been discontinued. These reports were consulted regularly by the students, and always were studied by one of the oldest members of the Faculty. We hope that we may be allowed to keep up our acquaintance with Old Probabilities...
...game between Princeton and Harvard took place on the St. George Cricket Grounds on Friday, November 3. The weather was all that could be desired; but the turf was somewhat wet and slippery from the rain of the preceding day. About five or six hundred people assembled to witness the game, mostly friends of Princeton, though we were glad to see among the crowd several fair wearers of the crimson...
...room full of smoke and lounging away the whole afternoon, simply because a little drizzling rain happens to be falling. Their climate is not subject to extremes as is ours, but it is proverbially noted for its wet days, and, as a matter of fact, the disagreeable weather of last week may be taken as a fair example of English weather. The success of the Oxford or Cambridge man is not owing so much to his constitution and climate, as to his pertinacity in carrying out whatever he undertakes. Men in England will train honestly for a month at least...
...first match game of the season was played with the Tufts Eleven Tuesday last on the Union grounds, Boston. The day was unusually clear, with only a slight breeze blowing from the northwest, - a perfect day for foot-ball. If the weather had been fair on Saturday, the day originally appointed for the game, the grounds would have been well filled; as it was, there were about 1,000 present...
...began on the weather, of course; but we soon branched off, and were getting along nicely, when I happened to deny, laughingly, some statement under discussion. "I don't believe in it." said I, "any more than I do in old Cooke's molecular theory...