Word: snowing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...estimated that three feet of snow and four and a half feet of slush have fallen in Cambridge since the first snow storm in December...
...seems to me that the college authorities are a little too parsimonius in the matter of lighting the college yard and buildings. Every evening that the moon is expected to appear, the lamps in the yard are left unlit. Now it very frequently happens that a rain or snow storm comes up, when the moon is entirely hidden, and the belated wanderer is left to feel his way through the slush or mud in the yard as best he may, trusting to the gods for guidance. In a college like Harvard it is nothing less than disgraceful that such...
...picked team from the Shooting Club visited Dedham Saturday afternoon and administered another defeat to their old antagonists, the Dedham Gun Club. The cold and the dazzling sunlight on the snow made good shooting almost an impossibility. The shooting was very even during the first two rounds. At the end of the first Dedham led by one point, and at the close of the second the score was exactly even. Harvard then made a great brace, and in the third and fourth rounds succeeded in scoring eighteen points more than their opponents. The total score was: Harvard, 64; Dedham...
...kind-hearted man can possibly have any objection to having the youth of Cambridge disport themselves on the gently sloping hill that leads down from President Eliot's house to the Library, when the hard frozen snow invites to sleds and toboggaus. But we do object to having the studious part of the college community exposed to the constant risk of being taken off their feet by the runners of the little coasters as they come flying down the slope. If these innocent children had any conception of the danger they occasion the college "grind," they would immediately desert this...
...short time, but also because we shall perhaps go to the lands where the thermometer does not jump frantically from forty degrees below zero in six hours; where one can wake up in the morning without the dread of finding the ground covered with ten inches of snow which better experience has taught, will be as many inches of slush at night; where one can walk confidently from place to place on civilized walks, and not have to step gingerly along, expecting each moment to sink ankle deep...