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...coldest spot in the northeast was on its highest peak, Mt. Washington, which rears up 6,300 feet in the Presidential Range in New Hampshire...
There is the added difficulty of antecedence and homework: "It's impossible to assume that most will attend and do the reading with any regularity, as you can about a college class," one instructor said. "Some come from as far as Providence on the coldest of nights and have read everything I suggested. Others don't even buy the books and attend perhaps half the lectures. At five dollars per half course, each lectures costs only fifteen cents, which few mind wasting...
...Western Europe: it was "absolutely filthy." Continuous rains drenched the country lanes of England and the sidewalk cafes of Paris. In mid-August, temperatures dropped to a chill 57° on the English Channel coast and hovered near freezing on the French side. London last week had its coldest August day since 1871; Wordsworth's famed Lake Country had its 32nd consecutive day of rain. Frigid Frenchmen threw up their hands in disgust and dismissed the whole season (the worst, climatically speaking, in 78 years) as "l'été pourri"-the decayed summer...
...Colette characters have the nerves and blood vessels of animals, but their hottest emotions are always ready to leap to the aid of their coldest calculations. In a jealous woman, for example, Colette sees "the development of a sense of hearing, virtuosity of vision, speed and silence of steps, the sense of smell directed towards the trace left behind by hair, by a perfumed powder, the passage of an indiscreetly happy person-all this recalls very closely the exercises of soldiers on a campaign, and the knowledge of poachers...
...were not only right and helpful in themselves, but also necessary to college discipline, partly as a morning roll-call and partly as a means of enforcing continuous residence . . . the omission of morning prayers for nearly five months, at the time of year when the days are shortest and coldest, had no ill effects whatever on college order or discipline...