Word: weather
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first signs of spring were apparent yesterday afternoon despite the frigid weather. LeC. H. Eells 1G.B. after many tempting bribes offered to him by fellow students consented to swim across the Charles River...
Facing a schedule of 14 games, the University lacrosse squad is now working out daily on the Soldiers Field turf. Only ten days are left before the team leaves for the south, and the stickmen may be handicapped in their development through bad weather...
...Since weather has permitted, the shot putters and weight men have been working out daily on Soldiers Field. Coach Farrell believes that more points will be tallied this year in these events than have been scored in them in recent years, and he is working to overcome this prevalent weakness of the University teams of the recent past. He stated yesterday that C. A. Pratt '28 is in his best early season form in throwing the discus and Javelin, that David Guarnaccia '29 shows greater promise than ever in the discus, and that T. G. Moore '29 is hurling...
...adventurous. Captain Charles William Brown, son of Jacob B., typical New England Ship Master, went to sea out of his native Newburyport, Mass., at 17. For 12 years he navigated the seven seas, as boy, able seaman, master mariner. He saw mutinies, endured shipwreck, felt the stiff kick of weather in typhoonous China seas. In the home port of old Newburyport one day he met Alice, daughter of Banker Albert W. Greenleaf, aristocratic Massachussets name, courted, married, took his bride to sea, retired three years later from his quarterdeck to manufacture ecclesiastical stained glass for Scandinavian Lutheran churches at Minneapolis...
...basin around the Weeks Memorial Bridge, a quarter of a mile of open water above the Newell Boat House gave the boats room for a good workout. Attempts have been made during the past week to keep the river open for the daily-passage of boats, but the severe weather has closed up each night the lane opened during...