Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, Dec. 30, 1918 [December 30, 1918] Wea [Weather] 
Fine
Clear & cool with light northerly
wind. The sunbeams gave cheer to
a wintry landscape but had scarce
warmth enough to melt the thin
mantle of snow that covers most
earth surfaces hereabouts, although
all our city streets & sidewalks are
quite free from it now.
  Garden birds: 2 Starlings in Parkman
apple tree; Jay heard screaming.
  Spent forenoon in house & Museum
writing letters & cheques for bills.
Miss Balch came to lunch with
us. After it I walked to Harvard
Square where the younger Dr. Andrews
took x ray photographs of most
of my teeth, exposing 5 plates in all.
It was wholly painless & soon over.
After that I called at Harvard Coop.
for a diary & at Olsens about framing
some pictures. Walked home in
gathering twilight. Usual eve. reading.

Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, Dec. 31, 1918 [December 31, 1918] Wea [Weather]
18 [degrees], 22 [degrees] Dull.
Cloudy with a bitter chill in
the light northerly wind. It
brought snow flakes every now & 
then but no more than sufficed to
whiten the ground by nightfall.
There is little or no old snow left
& the ground is not deeply frozen.
Where its surface was still soft a
few days ago I noticed the pointed
little green nose tips of squills
& snow drops showing above it an
inch or more. Miss Balch told me
yesterday that there are snow drops 
in full bloom somewhere in Scott Street.
  Garden birds. Crows & Jays
heard.
   Spent forenoon in Museum, writing
a few letters. Dr. Stevens called
on me there. He insists that I
must yield to, not resist, my
tendency to diurnal drowsiness.
It came on shortly after luncheon
& I slept it off in a couple of hours.
Usual evening reading in hall.