[Lunar Calendar December 1914]

Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, Jan. 1, 1914 [January 1, 1914] Wea [Weather]
Wintry conditions. Mixed.
  Brilliantly clear up to 10 A.M. Cloudy
after that with scattered snow flakes
falling every now & then. Intensely chilly
with rather low & ever falling temperature.
Ground hard frozen & practically free from
snow or ice. Grass only faintly green now.
Skating on Charles River. Thus we have at
last wintry conditions to usher in the
New Year. When it began at midnight
I was sitting in my den listening to the
incessant din of steam whistles blowing
far & near. C. [Caroline Brewster] got back from St. Paul's
half an hour later.
  Not a bird of any kind about the place.
  My day spent in Museum working
at Umbagog task. Finished with Red tail Hawk [Red-tailed Hawk]
story - a brief one - & began on
Red-shouldered Hawk, writing a full page.
C. type-copied everything I had to give
her. In the afternoon she gave a sort
of farewell reception for her reading class
- not to be continued this winter. Every
member came except Kate Horsford. I was
with them from 4.50 to 6. Usual evening
reading in the hall by C. & E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons]