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Winter Weather: The Early Years

Posted by Noah Kantro on January 23, 2013

With temperatures hovering in the single digits and snow on the ground, the brutal winter conditions for which Ithaca is known have finally returned. Make sure to bundle up!

Check out this video of how winter used to be at Cornell, including hockey and skating on Beebe Lake, horse-drawn snowplows, and gorge trails before the fences. The construction of what was to be Balch Hall dates this video to the late 1920s.

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