Word: zero
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...plan in relation to attendance at recitations adopted by the faculty of Tufts College is as follows: Hereafter the faculty will receive no petitions offering excuse for absences. In making up the rank of students all absences from recitations will count zero, except in cases of prolonged absence occasioned by illness or other extraordinary cause, in which case such loss may be made up by private examinations. In other cases the rank of each student will be determined wholly by the work done at the regular recitations of his class. Any student who fails to attain a rank...
...talk at present about training the Yale crew of 1887 in these zero days when skating and tobogganing are about the only sports that hold sway, seems rather absurd. Heretofore the candidates for the crew have practised during the latter part of the winter on hydraulic machines in which they went through the motions very well and derived many valuable points. But it was found "too stagey" and not in all respects like real water, and to obviate this difficulty there hasbeen constructed a tank which is to be filled with real Lake Saltonstall or rather Lake Whitney water...
Four students passed their holidays at the Eagle Mountain House, Jackson, N. H. and explored Tuckerman's Ravine and Kearsarge Mountain. As the thermometer indicated 15 degrees below zero while they were there it seemed rather a good preparation for Artic exploration...
Yesterday was the coldest day experienced in Cambridge this year, the thermometer registering three degrees below zero in the morning...
...Christmas vacation begins to-day. Most of us will be glad to leave Cambridge, not only because we shall be free from study for a short time, but also because we shall perhaps go to the lands where the thermometer does not jump frantically from forty degrees below zero in six hours; where one can wake up in the morning without the dread of finding the ground covered with ten inches of snow which better experience has taught, will be as many inches of slush at night; where one can walk confidently from place to place on civilized walks...