Word: boston
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...serve with great benefit to their nation. A group of University undergraduates has just finished a task, the completion of which deserves most honorable mention. These men gave up their Christmas vacation to go into the woods nearby and gather fuel to relieve the shortage so keenly felt in Boston this winter. It was a splendid work, and most opportune, coming at the time of one of the worst periods of cold which the East has experienced. The foresight of the Massachusetts Forestry Association in arranging this expedition must not escape commendation. This society made it possible...
...meeting of all men interested in the formation of a Freshman swimming team this winter will be held in the Gore Hall Common Room this evening at 7 o'clock. If sufficient interest is shown, arrangements will be made to secure a coach, and the pool of the Boston Y. M. C. A. on Huntington avenue will be reserved for practice several afternoons each week. The Athletic Association has given its sanction to a Freshman swimming team and will make arrangements for meets with nearby service teams and probably with a Yale 1921 team...
...this latter field that the pioneering of research must be done. If we neglect pure science we shall in time have no science to apply. Any impairment of this country's present facilities for research in science, whether pure or applied, is therefore to be avoided if possible. --Boston Herald...
...dependable records of the weather are a comparatively new thing. They extend back in this country but 44 years. And they have already gone to prove that there is no such thing as a "change of climate," for better or for worse, in New England. The weather in Boston in essentially what it was at the days of the first settlement; and if there had been no record as low as 14 degrees below zero between the years 1873 and 1917, we may be entirely certain that the exact instruments which we now have would have recorded a temperature...
...battlefields, and among the civilian population in war-ridden France and Serbia and Italy and Roumania. However, it brings a thrill of pride to Americans and emphasizes the fact that the present drive for new members is simply another means afforded the people to aid this great cause. --Boston Herald...