Word: warmness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...boon. The weather during the first half of the recess was as unpleasant as cold rains and low clouds and northeast winds could make it. But on Saturday there was a decided and most agreeable change. The change, however, of course had to have some drawbacks. For while the warm sun made the tennis nets and players sprout up profusely over Holmes and Jarvis, and started the struggling grass in the yard, it also brought up many weeds and muckers. These coarse plants were everywhere, and whoever passed among them seemed to hear them say, as they turned their foliage...
...pretty friend has already begun to spring that inane and venerable question of "Why is it dangerous to walk out of doors now?" which he immediately explains as "Because the cow-slips about, and the little buds are shooting every-where." It is spring, but, in spite of the warm weather, it is also the fit time for overcoats, as the tailor says. April is a deceptive maid, and lures many an unsuspecting youth to an early grave by her enticing suggestions to lay aside the winter garments. It was only yesterday morning that a large choir of coughers sang...
...warm, almost sultry weather of the last few days again arouses thoughts about the lack of general interest in rowing. There are now in the boat-house a fair number of pair-oared working boats, which are not used from one season to another. Although the Charles is not the most pleasing of waters on which a young man may exercise his muscle with the oars, yet the river is not so bad after all, and surely there ought to be awakened among our undergraduates a greater desire for universal excellence in boating. There are a few private shells...
Nichols will not be able to play ball until the weather is warm, as he has been forbidden by his physician on account of rheumatism...
...serious objection to all garments such as rubber overcoats and mackintoshes, intended to keep out the wet, is that from their imperviousness they also keep in the warm vapor which should escape from the body, and condensing it, soaks the underclothing with moisture...