Word: snow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...face of John Harvard in front of University Hall wore a mask of snow, with stones for eyes and mouth and a twig in place of a stogie...
...first founded as a training school for young ministers. Here they would come to study liturgy and oratory, learning how to guide souls in righteousness and lead back the heretic and the remiss. Here, shivering in spare wood-paneled dorms and dining rooms, they would combat the freezing snow and wind outside with the fires of religious devotion they hoped to kindle...
When the First Snow came, it came softly. The first flakes fell determinedly, but melted on contact with the warm pavement. The weatherman said "a couple of inches" and we all thought "just slush and puddles...
Around twelve o'clock the First Snow's joke became clear. Stragglers from Saturday night parties found the way home quietly romantic, streetlights acknowledging in amused yellow beams that they, too knew the joke. The First Snowmen were built after the First Snowfights, and snow angel-makers stripped off wet jeans to slide into warmer repose...
...joke lasted but a short while Sunday morning. Early risers smiled at brunch, laughed while the ploughs and shovels, skis and boots, tires and sneakers shoved and pulled at the First Snow. Trees split and bushes collapsed in muted cracking and the initial wonder of the First Snow changed to laughter and smiles at the silent white joke...