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RECENT STORM CELEBRATED GREAT BLIZZARD OF 1888

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Professor R. DeC. Ward '89, Professor of Meteorology in the University, is authority for the statement that yesterday was the anniversary of the great blizzard of 1888, when a gale piled snow which had fallen for 24 hours in drifts ranging in depth from 30 to 40 feet. For a time yesterday's storm threatened to approach the havoc wrought by the earlier blizzard, but a comparatively high temperature prevented this.

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