Word: weather
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...work on the championship tennis courts on Divinity Field is progressing so rapidly that they will be ready for play a week from Saturday, weather conditions permitting. The eight courts, four of which are to be double, are already staked out and a dozen men are at work completing the surface. Six inches of cinders is the foundation for the clay courts, whose surface is to be of decayed rock. Bleachers are to be erected at the north end of the field under two great willow trees which will afford ample shade for the spectators...
...University football squad was practically given a day off yesterday, for a light practice in the Cage constituted the whole afternoon's work. The effect of the weather on the Stadium field was such that it was deemed inadvisable to hold the work out-doors, and in the limited space of the Cage the only practice possible was signal drill, preceded by a passing practice for the centres. The backs spent their preliminary time brushing up the execution of old plays, while the linemen practiced on getting a quick start in charging. The inclusion of a black-board talk earlier...
...account of the bad weather yesterday, the practice of the teams was confined to a short run beneath the Stadium...
That so large a part of general conversation in America relates to the weather, to politics, and to sport, is not so much because these things are intrinsically more interesting or variable than in other countries, as because they are among the few subjects that everyone is familiar with and can talk about. Professional learning is, no doubt, cultivating, but standing alone, it is not culture, for the reason that it is circumscribed and includes only a narow part of the stream of thought. For a lawyer to look through the microscope of a man of science increases his means...
University and club crews will be called out on Monday. University men be at Newell at 4.30, and club crew candidates at Weld at 3.30 ready to row immediately. The fall rowing is to last about four weeks, depending on the weather. The work which it is intended to accomplish will be fully explained by Mr. R. F. Herrick '90 and Captain D. P. Morgan...