Word: warms
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Throughout the winter the prolonged cold spell affected even the Southern camps, and flying was somewhat curtailed. Now that the warm weather has come, many more machines are in the air, and necessarily there are more accidents. As time goes on, also, more new planes are put into operation, and therefore much more flying is done. Our mortality statistics, if compared with those of the Royal Flying Corps camps in Texas and elsewhere, are very favorable, and yet these camps are not considered to be carelessly conducted...
...considerable length of this the saving would be slight. The work for the Government must be continued, and that involves keeping open laboratories and libraries, the plant must be kept from destruction; the students must live somewhere and dormitories are approximately as cheap a method of keeping them warm as could be found. Moreover, it has been calculated, that the cost in rule of having the students travel to their homes would equal that of keeping them warm in college dormitories for a number of days...
...present the University is without available facilities for training the two squads. Several weeks ago when both boathouses were closed in order to aid in conserving the fuel supply, the rowing machines were moved into the Locker Building. Recently heat in this building also was shut off. If the warm weather continues, however, it is expected that the Locker Building will be reopened on Tuesday. If the building is reopened then, crew candidates will start next week...
...legal 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...
...left in front of Y--. Nothing like being commissioned on the 13th, joining the 13th engineers, landing on foreign soil on the 13th, etc., for good luck. Incidentally, I went all over the Canadian trench tramways on the 13th, and believe me, it was a warm trip at times...