Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Profiting by the first few days of clear weather last week, he launched an attack upon the French emplacements south of the Riff in the valley of Oued Sabel. Three villages of tribes that had deserted to the French were burned, and numerous captured Frenchmen were castrated, as is the almost invariable custom of the savage Riffians...
...battery candidates have been at work for several weeks. This is the fourth year that Coach Davison has been the Freshman mentor. He will be aided this year by Coach Mitchell of the University team. Coach Mitchell will devote an hour each afternoon to the yearlings while the weather forces them to go through their periods of practice in the cage. When they go outside on to Soldier's Field, he will devote one afternoon a week to furthering their development. The H.A.A. has no equipment on hand for Freshmen, so they are asked to bring out their own. Manager...
...usually he comes to one of the following conclusions: it is the weather; it is divisionals; it is tutorial reading; it is just plain intellectual fatigue. In all of which he is partly right. Some time ago the CRIMSON mentioned the chronic case of college cramp, affecting the University. Spring has not yet come to cure that ill.. So dog days continue to rule. Yet even the very least of university Pollyannas must remember that canines, though necessary beings, are not, after all, the most delightful companions when they continue to growl like child Menckens. The weather is rather...
...speak of spring fever would be pretty bad. Nevertheless, this business of wearing no overcoat is at best perturbing. It is comparatively easy to wander from lecture to lecture when the seven minutes between them are wet and disagreeable, but with this weather the situation changes...
...becomes ironic he loses his prestige as a scholar, and when he loses his irony he becomes dull. Then newspapers and journals to quote George Ross in the "Atlantic"--send back his efforts, kindly but with little scruple about his past prestige. But more than all he must weather the shoals of thought into which the winds of mere courtesy to the world outside continually force him. Last of all, his crew of youngsters, critical and monotonous, helps little to make life a pleasant voyage on a happy sea. But he likes it! The critics from the market place...