Word: heat
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...occupants last evening. The actual administration of the dormitories in their hotel aspect will be in the hands of a faculty committee consisting of Dean Alfred E. Burton, chairman; Major E. T. Cole and Horace S. Ford, the bursar of the Institute. Technology not only furnishes the rooms with heat, light, hot and cold water, and with showers in the adjacent lavatories, but it also equips them with the necessary furniture and looks after the laundry work of the room. The housekeeping service at the dormitories will be entirely in the hands of the Institute, but questions of deportment will...
...comp and wherry races yesterday afternoon were two preliminary heats, those finishing first and second in each heat being picked to race the final heat. In the wherry race F. T. Fisher '19 won the final race and H. C. Williams '20 was second. C. L. Poor, Jr., '18 and G. D. Gillett ucC were first and second respectively in the comp race. The winners of each race will be given a silver cup and the runners-up will receive silver medals. These prizes will be presented at a crew meeting this month...
Thayer third won the heat yesterday but was lapped by Eliot second, thus winning two points and the second crew medals, and Eliot one point. Thayer second defeated Eliot third, winning two points. The following men made up the crews: Thayer third: stroke, W. H. Mitchell '19; 7, P. Robinson '19; (6, T. E. Proctor '19; 5, F. T. Fisher '19;) 4, E. A. Hill '19; 3, G. T. Clunie '19; 2, L. K. Garrison '19; bow, R. C. Merriam '19; cox., C. E. Hodges...
...complete. To tell the truth, neither Nash nor I were much disappointed. We had met a few men who had really been there since we left New York, and there didn't seem to be much romance in going to the Garden of Eden until the summer heat had subsided and the thermometer wasn't much over 100 degrees...
...satisfied to be planted so far from the war area. As an answer, remember that all the men we are working with are Territorial who are awaiting their turn to go "up the Gulf," wounded and convalescents who come back with nerves shattered by the "hell" of Mesopotamian heat and disease, and regulars who have to guard the "no man's land" dividing India from Afghanistan and Kashmir. This work is as necessary as munitions factories and telegraphs in the organization of a big army and after all the stories I have heard from men who have been away...