Courtesy of Dr. Charles Boyle, Spring Hill Archive. The recent cold spell has no doubt been a real inconvenience to many, but entries in the Jesuit House Diary for February of 1899 show that we've had it easy. It will be necessary to understand that the water supply in those days was pumped up from the lake before one can understand the meaning of some of the entries. A light fall of snow this evening. Snow 2 inches.
Boys enjoy the snow very much.
Water pipe at the lake burst. No water for boiler, hence no steam till noon. Boys get half a day off as the classrooms were too cold. Could not wash as the pipes at the wash house had burst. Pipe burst at the lake and at the tank on the big boys' side.