Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...cutters will clear the snow from Fresh Pond as soon as fair weather returns, so that there will probably be good skating there in a few days...
...Harvard correspondent of the Boston Traveller hits upon a very suggestive theme: "It is doubtful," he says, "if one Harvard student in forty could give a clear statement of the value to astronomers of the observations made on Wednesday last. Towards the end of the year the senior class are invited to visit the observatory and inspect it, and they are then given a look at the moon. With this valuable amount of astronomical knowledge is the Harvard student thrown upon the world. Many high school scholars know more of astronomy than an average Harvard graduate. The university would...
...WEATHER.WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 8, 1. A.M. For New England, cold and clear, with north to west winds and higher barometer...
...WEATHER.WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 4, 1. A. M. For New England, cold, fair or clear weather during the day, followed by warmer, southerly to westerly winds, and higher followed by falling barometer...
...says, an abomination and an outrage to allow young men to travel all over the country to play and witness matches, incurring expenses which in many cases their friends cannot afford, wasting time to the neglect of their real work, and exposed to various demoralizing influences. It is the clear duty of college governments to prohibit it absolutely, under penalty of expulsion. To allow and encourage it is a fraud upon parents, the majority of whom send their sons to college to obtain an education in something more valuable than athletics, though these have their proper places and their value...