Word: rains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Owing to the dampening influence of the rain upon the spirits and countenances of the Senior class the picture recently taken of that aggregation enjoying Cambridge weather looked somewhat bedraggled and uninspiring. The picture therefore will be retaken today at one o'clock. The Freshman picture will be taken at the same time. Rumor has it that the latter will be given an opportunity to make good the astounding deficit in their recent contribution to the welfare of the departing Seniors...
...small donation of the Class of 1926 to the Seniors yesterday, falling short as it did by $200 of last year's Freshman contribution, may be partially explained by the rain, which towards the close of the ceremony was falling in torrents sufficient to quench the ardor of the most munificent giver...
Yesterday's rain scored heavily against athletic contests when it postponed two baseball contests and four tennis matches. The University baseball game with Bowdoin College, and the second team game with Andover were cancelled and the Freshman game with Dean Academy postponed. The University tennis match with M. I. T., the second team match with Newton Center, the Freshman with Andover, and the Business School match with the Newton Center Squash Tennis Club, were all cancelled or postponed...
...next Friday afternoon, when the team will play its only match of the week. On Wednesday afternoon the Freshman team will meet M. I. T. on the Divinity Courts in its first match, since the game with St. Mark's, scheduled for Saturday, was also not played because of rain...
Conditions for the meet Saturday were very poor, a pouring rain falling during most of the afternoon, and handicapping the contestants to a large extent. Eastman, the Crimson representative in the shotput, placed third with a heave of 42 feet 3 1-2 inches, his attempt falling short of those by Hills of Princeton and Beers of the University of Maryland. Both of the University entrants in the discus throw won places, Carpenter, with a distance of 124 feet 8 inches, coming fourth, and Miller, with a throw 19 inches shorter, gaining fifth. The event was won by Liel...