“I’ve already devised a way to catch up,” said Professor of German Peter J. Burgard, who cancelled yesterday’s meeting of his course, Literature and Arts C-65, “Repression and Expression:Literature and Art in Fin de Siecle Germany and Austria.”

Matt C. Lynch ’03, who found out his English 185, “Wit and Humor” lecture had been cancelled in an e-mail from Bernbaum Professor of Literature Leo Damrosch yesterday morning, spent the day with roommates whose classes were not cancelled.

“I think most of my roommates didn’t go anyway,” he said. “But I sensed some subtle resentment.”

Though a snow-related ankle sprain kept Lynch out of the slush, his roommates brought the snow inside for a dorm-room snowball fight.

With three of his classes cancelled, Timothy J. Patton ’06 used the extra time to catch up on his schoolwork.

“I was up really early because I didn’t think they’d be cancelled,” he said. “I watched a movie...I didn’t go out or anything because a lot of people had class. I was surprised, I was one of the only ones.”

Patton said he, too, faced some resentment from less fortunate friends.

One “seemed to get mad,” he said.

“She hit me! Not hard, though,” he added.

Some students who attended scheduled classes, however, still had a brief reprieve.

“I had class in Annenberg and someone pulled the fire alarm...so I got a 40 minute respite from Expos,” said Melissa E. Cronin ’06. “A fire day instead of a snow day.”

Though no information about the storm was published on the College’s website yesterday, some House senior tutors e-mailed students to remind them that classes were still in session.

For at least one administrator, however, the large snowfall was more than a matter of logistics.

Assistant Dean of the College Wendy A.F. Torrance brought her daughter, Honor, outside for a chance to play in the snow—sledding on the steps of Memorial Church in Tercentenary Theatre.

“It’s a chance to get out at the end of the day,” she said.

Torrance’s husband, Andy, guided Honor down a shallow slope he had carved in the snow.

“And it’s the only hill on campus,” he said.