Word: froze
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Gymnasium yesterday afternoon. Practice consisted of instruction in goal shooting by Captain J. E. P. Morgan '17 and P. H. Smart '14; J. I. Wylde '17, goal on last year's team, coached the goal guards. The water which had been thrown on the pavement of the handball courts froze, giving an excellent ice surface to shoot from. A new feature which added greatly to accuracy in shooting was the introduction of a wooden frame supporting a target with a red metal disc in the centre. The disc rings when the puck strikes it, and is so arranged...
...occasionally occurred at prayers, those who thought they had any grievances taking advantage of such time to resent them. Compulsory attendance upon religious exercises seemed to many to justify their using every means to evade or disregard them. Thus the bell was turned up and filled with water which froze at night: the rope on which it was hung was cut and the Bible was stolen from the pulpit...
...rooms on the first and second floors were only slightly injured by the fire, which skipped from the room in which it started to the third floor. The contents of these rooms, however, were almost totally destroyed by water. The firemen were greatly hampered by the cold, which froze the water as it fell, and by a high wind which lent a draft to the flames...