Word: rains
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...games were played by the University lacrosse team on its southern trip. The Naval Academy was defeated 4 to 2, but Johns Hopkins and the Mount Washington Club both defeated Harvard 3 to 2. The game with Stevens Institute, scheduled for Saturday, had to be cancelled, on account of rain...
...game at Annapolis was played in a driving rain, which made fast work difficult. Nash at third defence and Webber at second defence did good work at passing and carrying the ball. During the first half most of the playing was in Harvard's territory, the period ending with the score 2 to 1 in the Navy's favor. In the second half the Navy's goal was constantly in danger and Harvard scored three times...
...height of his love, great in the depth of his sorrow, great in his elevated personality, great in his admiration for his University, great in his patriotism, great in his ideas as to the destiny of our race, great in his influence for good, like the genial and vivifying rain from heaven. We know that 'Nature might stand up and say to all the world: This...
...work of the University and Freshman crews has thus far been somewhat retarded owing to the fact that the ice has remained in the river this year two weeks later than usual. It is expected that a few days of continued warm weather or rain will permit of the crews being launched. Since the University eight is a particularly heavy one, and the work in the tank has a tendency to make the men slow, it is of the greatest importance that the crew get out on the river as soon as possible...
...omen. Not until the clouds have parted from the mountain peaks, do the natives deem it safe to set out. The climbing is difficult and often dangerous. On the mountain sides are to be found curious rock-capped pinnacles of clay towering many feet into the air. The rain and snow has washed away all the clay except that directly under the rock. The men have to squirm their way up between two vertical walls of rock or climb up perpendicular sides, holding on by hands and feet...