Word: summers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...residence in the only Commonwealth in America, but in regard to the prophecy made by our Boston friend everyone in Cambridge claims to hail from a certain state in the Southwest. We do not wish to be foolishly skeptical, but seeing is believing, and until the warm winds of summer are with us we shall be anything but reassured. We had almost been persuaded to believe that the Teutonic assertion, "Gott mit uns," was well founded...
...decision has been reached by the University authorities that the engineering camp at Squam Lake, N. H., cannot be continued this summer. This determination was arrived at after attempts had been made by the officials of the School of Engineering and Mining to make arrangements by which the camp could be maintained, and after 30 men had petitioned to enroll in the summer work...
...contains quarters, classrooms and drafting rooms sufficient for the use of 150 students. Because of war conditions and the large expense involved in running the camp it was decided that it would be unwise to add such a large deficit to the University's treasury. The summer work, was also abandoned last year because of the war for the first time in 25 years, but the authorities expect that it will be resumed after the war, when conditions have changed sufficiently to justify its maintenance...
...thought for a time that arrangements could be made by which men who have signed up for the work next summer could attend one of the camps usually held by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It was found, however, that the training given there in surveying, engineering and mining is not suited to the needs of the men studying in the engineering school of the University. Moreover, a majority of the 30 men who registered are taking only elementary courses in engineering. For those men, however, who want to prepare for the engineering profession next year, special arrangements will...
...time when the young man's fancy turns to the romantic, Von Hindenberg feels the call of Paris. Annually he longs for the life of the Quartier Latin, and annually he is forced to spend the summer months commuting from Russia to France. But the old game of war is not as amusing as formerly, the Bolsheviki refuse to go near the Mazurian Lakes, and the German people is loth to waste any more good nails on a wooden image of the Kaiser's right-hand...