Word: storming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While Cambridge and the rest of New England was in the throes of the most severe snow storm of the year the University Yard with examination goers breasting the savage blasts in desperate haste yesterday morning, resembled a portion of the Yukon Trail in the days of the gold rush...
...University offices were allowed to leave early in order to arrive home by dinner time but there were no other irregularities in the day's schedule. The Maintenance Department reported no more than the usual number of complaints and none which came as the direct result of the storm. Work on the Memorial Hall clock which has been behaving in an eccentric fashion for the last three days, was discontinued due to the intense cold in the tower...
Students hurrying to examinations yesterday morning were momentarily horrified to see the usually reliable hands of the Memorial Hall clock pointing to quarter of ten o'clock. The storm put both that clock and the Germanic Museum timepiece out of commission the night before last...
...Ambassador's son, 12-year-old Henry Howard, attending Newman School, famed Catholic preparatory institution at Lakewood, N. J., was one night last week forced out into a driving sleet storm when fire demolished his dormitory...
Three members of the championship Crimson squash team have weathered the storm of opposition in the University tournament to win places in the semifinel round and the last berth will be decided when H. N. Rawlins '27, number one player on the squad, meets P. R. Pease '26, second team veteran, Monday afternoon. R. S. Wright '26, L. S. Haskins '26, and P. M. Lenhart '27, are the three players who have already established themselves in the round before the finals...