Word: frozen
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There is no skating on Fresh Pond at present, as the water where the ice has been cut off has not yet frozen...
...kind-hearted man can possibly have any objection to having the youth of Cambridge disport themselves on the gently sloping hill that leads down from President Eliot's house to the Library, when the hard frozen snow invites to sleds and toboggaus. But we do object to having the studious part of the college community exposed to the constant risk of being taken off their feet by the runners of the little coasters as they come flying down the slope. If these innocent children had any conception of the danger they occasion the college "grind," they would immediately desert this...
...with the hope of explaining the reasons for these laments that we attack the subject. It is a matter of interest to all. Everybody has had some experience with the coy willfulness of those faucets and pipes. Everybody knows what a delight it is to linger shivering and half-frozen, waiting for a drop or two of warm water, and finally in despair to dash under the ice-cold stream in place of something more agreeable. And everybody knows that it is the proper thing to complain of the gymnasium officials. But everybody does not know that in the present...
...wish to say a kindly word to the freshmen. There exists in Harvard a tendency, or peril which has been called indifference, scepticism and other names are equally indefinite. It shows itself mainly in a frozen demeanor among the upperclassmen toward each other as well as toward the freshmen. Freshmen not being accustomed to such strange ways of evincing affectionate feeling, are troubled by this coldness. We simply give them a word of comfort and warning. They must not be discouraged. The upperclassmen really think a great deal of them, and would show it if they dared. But they...
...McKenzie's remark during the service yesterday morning that, "No one can stand before thy cold," was so true that many men forced smiles upon their frozen faces...