Word: weather
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...zero weather has driven the R. O. T. C. to the shelters of the cage and the Municipal Building. The latter edifice is indeed a shelter, the cage is merely a protection against the icy blasts that come down the valley of the Charles. Yet the cage can be drilled in; a skilful officer can maneouvre a company within its bounds, but Pershing himself would be baffled if he had to train a company of ten squads in the Municipal Building...
Coach Donovan took charge of the candidates for the relay teams and gave them a short workout on the 130-yard board track near the Locker Building. The weather was so cold that the runners could not stay out long, but were compelled to make their work fast. The scarcity of the number of men is partly accounted for by the fact that it was the first day of the term, but Coach Donovan expressed his disappointment that more had not reported. Runners for the 390 and 780-yard informal and Freshman relay teams are needed, as well...
Coach Farrell took charge of the jumpers and weight men in the cage, but work there will be discontinued until after the cold weather, when the Athletic Association plans to heat it. More men are also needed in the field events...
Rowing practice until the mild weather of spring will be carried on at the Locker Building instead of at the Newell Boathouse, as announced early in December. Scarcity of coal has largely actuated the rowing authorities in their decision not to reopen Newell Boat-house until spring. It was felt that the practice did not justify the burning of a half-ton of fuel daily...
...conceivable that the hydrostatic pressure was increased in some way by the war psychology, and the resisting power of the neighboring warmer air decreased, but it would be hard to maintain any such thesis as that. The simple fact is that scientific and dependable records of the weather are a comparatively new thing. They extend back in this country but 44 years. And they have already gone to prove that there is no such thing as a "change of climate," for better or for worse, in New England. The weather in Boston in essentially what it was at the days...