Word: weather
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Haven, Conn., Oct. 20, 1916.--Yale defeated Virginia Polytechnic Institute in the Yale Bowl this afternoon by the score of 19 to 0. Three touchdowns were scored and one goal from touchdown, and never once was the Yale goal threatened. The sultry weather and slippery field handicapped the play greatly...
...second team's goal line on a line plunge after a steady advance down the field had brought the ball within striking distance. The practice was the first real workout the squad has had on a slippery field, and the men succeeded in holding their feet fairly well. The weather prevented any spectacular plays because the ball was so hard to handle and it was impossible to make speed on the heavy field...
...weather be inclement the class in Military Science and Tactics will report at Emerson D. C. CORMES. Captain U. S. Army. Commandant...
With the coming of cold weather the temptation to sit by a warm fire, to hibernate, is greater than in the spring or summer. Yet, if we realize the opiate consequence of such laziness, we should bestir ourselves. As Bacon wrote, "Use fasting and full eating, but rather full eating; watching and sleep, but rather sleep; sitting and exercise, but rather exercise, and the like; so shall nature be cherished, and yet taught masteries...
...took us two days in Bombay to get our hot weather outfits. Then we moved up on to the great central plain to Poona, where we had a couple of days looking around monist the convalescents from Mesopotamia, and where we left one of the Cornell fellows who came with us. Nash was sent directly to Murree, where the opening of a new field needed a man at once. The other Cornell fellow and myself were lucky enough to be sent down to Bangalore, away to the south and called the garden city of India. There we had a wonderful...