Word: weatherly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These evenings are designed for the general public rather than for students, for whom another such series will probably be held later in the season. There will be a short talk illustrated by lantern slides and, if weather permits, telescopic observation. The 24-inch telescope will probably be used. Members of the staff will explain the use of instruments and the work of the Observatory...
...been made convenient and easy for any member of the University. The regular organized sports offer a natural solution; but for the man whose time or inclination forbids them, there is a sufficiency of other answer. Tennis has become by all odds the most popular pastime for good weather; in winter its indoor counterpart, squash, holds equal popularity. Both of these are well provided for at the University; about fifty tennis courts are already in play, and a score or so more planned. Squash courts, too, are numerous, and their number rapidly being increased. Furthermore, a tennis instructor has recently...
Practice will last as long as the weather will permit, probably until the last week in October. Several games with teams in and about Boston will be arranged and a large number of men will receive a thorough tryout in preparation for the more serious work of the spring...
...University has faced a series of unforeseen obstacles in the rowing season which reaches its climax this afternoon. Confronted by a difficult situation to begin with, the coaches have been balked by sudden illness and impossible weather conditions time and again. But the crew which has finally emerged, the crew which races Yale this afternoon, is one worthy to rank with its predecessors, an eight capable of taking care of itself over the four miles against any crew in the country...
...Class Day Committee, after nearly half a year of thorough work and careful planning, today prepare to rest their case. The brief is taken from their hands and the success or failure of the Day now depend upon the Weather-man and the Junior Ushers. The former, as the daily weather reports indicate, is of a highly temperamental nature which passes all human understanding. In his case reasoning will have to be abandoned in favor of a water-soaked, imploring faith. But the latter, closer within reach, may be reminded how much depends upon them. If, as seems probable...