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...cold and wet. From some ten years of observation I am convinced that wet feet are the most common cause of tonsillitis and other forms of sore throat. There is no "water-proof" shoe made that will keep the foot dry in deep snow, especially in melting snow and slush. As long as a man keeps moving there is little danger from wet feet, but to sit in a lecture room or elsewhere in that condition is taught with danger. M. H. BAILEY...
Yale went through signal practice for some fifteen minutes yesterday and then lined up against the scrub for a short time. The 'varsity fumbled considerably, probably owing to the snow and slush, but the second eleven were unable to hold at any point...
...decidedly not the case from Sever to University. More men pass back and forth here than anywhere else in the yard, and in passing and repassing one another, they are often shoved about and crowded most unpleasantly, and not infrequently are obliged to step off into the snow or slush. This evil could easily be remedied if the walk were made the full width of the path. It is not asking too much, surely, that this be done, for the comfort of the students...
...have done so in as feeble and incomplete a way as could only be equalled by the New York Cleaning Department. Absolutely no attention is paid to the paved or dirt walks or the entrance to Massachusetts or Harvard, which have been today as so often before, covered with slush and water, against which rubber boots alone are proof. Were these thoroughfares public ones the college authorities would be guilty of violation of city ordinances. Should absence of compulsion keep the powers that be from doing their plain duty towards the students...
...snow and slush on Jarvis prevented the freshmen from taking their usual outdoor practice yesterday; they spent the usual practice time in the gymnasium...