Word: wet
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...spite, says the Springfield Republican, of the general wet blanketing of boating there, the Harvard class crews are hard at work training for the races in April...
...perhaps also it will not be out of place to wish for more. Thus far the method has been especially favorable to the advocates of few plank-walks and strict economy, and very unfavorable to physicians; but the physicians will have their turn next spring. No plank-walks mean wet feet, wet feet mean illness, illness means the doctor, and the doctor means-well, sometimes one thing and sometimes another. In the spring the yard often contains a system of small rivers, and when the bell rings we see the men coming out of their different halls, swimming slowly across...
...instance, the press has for many years voiced the protests of the students against leaving the walks in the yard in such a condition as to put a premium on walking on the grass in wet weather. For years the college press has clamored for the use of the library at night, and one of the professors has shown that by lighting the library, gymnasium, and Memorial Hall with electricity, the college would save enough to repay in a few years, the expense of the "plant." The students have for years PROTESTED against certain abuses in the janitor system...
Tuesday evening, the Chelsea Republicans enjoyed the services of the band in a parade in that classic town. The procession was a great success, notwithstanding the mud and wet weather. The band, it is perhaps needless to say, kept to its usual high standard of merit, and met with the universal approval of muckerdom, which was extremely well represented along the route. The beet part of this parade is generally considered to be the supper, which a member, living in Chelsea, kindly provided for the band. It is rumored that there were several young ladies present at the party...
...Somerville powder house. Here the hounds were again at fault in a large open field. The scent regained, they wandered about the low country lying between Tufts College and winter Hill, over fences and railroad banks and through an unpleasant marsh, where all, hares as well as hounds, got wet feet. Coming towards home on a straight road, the way was clear enough until suddenly the scent was found to stop without any bags being left. After a diligent search, one of the bags was found where it had been left a little to the rear. The other had been...