Word: heated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another clothes-shedding, soda-consuming change of the weather is upon Cambridge. The recent respite gave most undergraduates time to finish up their examinations and flee the city of heat, but a few wretches are still basting their brains. By the time that this spell is passed, Commencement will be a thing of the present, and with that once over, the college community will scatter to every corner of the globe where amusement or work can be found...
Meanwhile, swelter, for soon your books will no longer know the thumbing of fingers and the hasty passing of eyes. Glean them in haste and in the heat of the day, for you will soon rest...
...advice will be needed in meeting the new warm spell, for summer attire and disattire are already the rule. And if the combination of heat and examination is too much for some heads, just remember that it is soon over. But for the present, "Who made this damn weather anyway...
Whatever the complaints about Cambridge weather, it cannot be accused of monotony. A change from tropical, blazing heat to the usual coolness of a New England spring is no slight feat for a single afternoon. And it has driven the persecuted Cantabrigians to acrobatic changes of raiment; at one moment, clothes as close to nothingness as decorum permitted; an hour later sweaters and topcoats had recovered their usual prestige as necessities in combating the climate. Yesterday, collapses, faintings under the relentless torridity; tomorrow, beggars will probably be found frozen on the streets...
...cooling of the temperature may be a sign that the feverish activity of the last two weeks is drawing to a close. After a period of white heat, undergraduate intellects are resorting to their normal lukewarmness. A comfortable atmosphere again pervades the whole of Cambridge...