Word: slush
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...least and next morning has a cough or cold to help him in his grinding. Plank walks to the library would prove a great blessing. As it is now, not a path leading to that building is not covered on a mild day with a layer of melting slush or mud almost as deep. The remedy is simple and not expensive. With plank walks in some places and not in others a false sense of security from wet feet grows up, which is rudely broken as often as one makes his way libraryward...
...this New Haven weather? No! it is snow, rain, slush, fog, mist, puddles, glare ice, falling avalanches from the caves, falling snow-balls from the open windows. No walking, no driving, no sleighing, wet feet, damp clothes, no appetite, Lenten housekeeping, everything gloomy, papers publishing about the "Suicide Club," men grumpy, money scarce, and your umbrella stolen. [Courant...
...hospitality, cordial and generous, that was offered to the students who went to Cambridge with the team, will be remembered by them most pleasantly. The action of the Harvard students who so energetically labored, amid slush and snow, for nearly two days, to prepare the ground for the game, is worthy of thanks from Princeton. No game was ever played with more spirit and pluck, and, at the same time, no game was ever freer from bad feeling. [Princetonian...
...EDITORS HERALD: Why can't we have a crossing between the west end of the Memorial Hall delta and and the opposite side of the street, by the entrance to Holmes' Field? A man coming from the gymnasium has to wade through mud and slush without hope. One of the college's gasoline beacons would also be an acceptable addition to this place. Yours...
...them, apparently, in no other way. If men are not willing to subscribe, let us hear no more of the complaints that have been so often made for several years past. The thousand men who, during five months of the year, are put to such inconvenience by slush and mud in the Yard should surely be willing to subscribe a sum sufficient to provide a remedy for this state of things. The Crimson heads the list with a subscription of twenty-five dollars...