Word: snow
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...heartily sympathize with the nine in their affliction, the recent snow-storm. Just as they were preparing to enjoy the warmth of an April sun, and were getting ready to begin their spring practicing, old Father Boreas "put in his oar," and says Nay. Well, it can't be helped, and the only thing to do is to put a good face on the matter, and confine practice to the gymnasium for a few days longer...
...never. Useless? Not as long as we are addressing men who reflect, and students who have a taste for beauty and order. Hence, we plead for the protection of the grass; and now especially because upon these few weeks depends its state for the entire spring and summer. The snow and ice over which we could walk at random without damaging the under-lying grass, have melted. Now, if we stray off the paths and take short-cuts, resultant devastation is certain. Why study the natural laws of cause and effect unless we apply them...
...sophomore at Dartmouth, while in a fit of somnambulism, jumped out of a second-story window into the snow...
...snow still lingers provokingly on Holmes field. It is feared that it will be a week, at least, and perhaps a longer time before the nine, can begin its out-door work...
...fact that the class crews are now upon the water shows that it will not be long before the weather will be warm enough to melt the little snow now upon the ground, and permit the candidates for the 'Varsity nine to practice regularly on Jarvis field. Before the nine goes upon the field it may be interesting to examine what the candidates have been doing in the gymnasium during the winter months preparatory to beginning active training out of doors...