King's College Record - Muddy Grounds November 1879

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Birthplace Overview King’s "Record" Overview Sports Snowshoe Club Cricket Athletic Sports Cogswell Cricket Prize Gymnasium Football (Rugby) Season End Icy "Three Elms" Path Cricket Pitch/Cattle *Vroom "Roomate"* Cricket Fishing Skating Carnival Weather and Other Eulogy – McCawley New Acadia Grounds and Woods Windsor Scenery Electric Light Adjoining Clifton Ornamental Trees Filling “Bog Pond”	King’s College Record Nov 1879 Vinsoriana Foot-Ball and Cricket, it is to be feared, are both virtually, over for the season. The recent rain and snow have rendered the grounds so soft and muddy that they are totally unfit for playing on. It is strange that the cricket ground, which is one of the most elevated parts of the College lands, should with the slightest fall of rain or snow become almost as soft and impassable as a marsh. Long walks in the country are at present the order of the day; the Falls, the Forks, Winkworth, and the Plains are the most favoured places. It might be supposed that "The beautiful season, called by the pious Acadian peasants the summer of All Saints" was the most agreeable time for walking; but the Indian Summer seems to be very slow in visiting Windsor this year, and our pedestrians have not, as yet, enjoyed the best walking Excerpt From: King’s College Record – Vol 1 King’s College, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Library – King’s College Archive
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