Word: summering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...blithely swooping over the months to the far distant Commencement? It is the first real bond felt by the Freshman, is this juvenalia, for it is much more personal and more intimate than the frigidity of the application blanks and schedules which trickle from University Hall all during the summer...
Along with the huge increase in American university enrollment during the past decade there is also to be noted a striking change in the manner in which these hordes of students are spending their summer vacations. Time was, and not so long ago, when the only fit place for the undergraduate from June to September was a hammock, nicely fortified with cooling drinks and those strange things known as summer novels. In any other position he was considered anachronistic; somehow a winter occupied with scholastic endeavors demanded a quite idle and useless antidote...
...although not exactly a necessity to the maintenance of the national economic security, the student's capabilities are being realized. This however, is a minor point. The important thing is that the undergraduate's summer has become steadily more active and less sedentary. He may enter some trade or engage in agricultural work, if he is financially able, he may roam the seven seas. But rarely does he commit himself to the vegetation which was his wont. He appears to have reached the conclusion that there is no code which forbids him adding to his stock of knowledge...
...Edward W. Starling, presidential vacation-home seeker (TIME, May 16), inspected the Franklin Floete estate, offered for the President's period of summer relaxation. At Spencer, Iowa, a delegation of 50 Iowans met Colonel Starling, took him on a tour through the vicinity of Spirit Lake. Colonel Starling, with many a prospective site yet to see, neither encouraged nor discouraged the Floete "boom." ?A swarm of bees which settled in a tree on the White House grounds last October were identified by government bee culturists as the same swarm which last October escaped from the grounds of the Smithsonian...
...Glass. The waxy coating of the Flex-O-Glass has a tendency to soften in hot sunshine, and dust may then adhere which is not easily washed off. This material is primarily intended, however, for use in animal husbandry to provide protection in winter. During the hot summer months it may be removed and in the fall reinstalled...