Word: weather
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Charlesbank rink, situated near the northwestern corner of Soldiers Field, which was used by 1920 last winter, will be reserved again for the Freshman team. Several informal candidates used this rink during the cold snap last week, and while the severe weather lasted the ice was remarkably good...
...Freshman elevens at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton so far this year, it will be safe to say the University first year men have no easy task ahead of them. Last Saturday these Freshmen only tied Exeter Academy, 7 to 7, the New Hampshire team holding the position of weather-cock this year. The Yale 1921 eleven defeated Exeter 20 to 0, while Princeton scored 12 to the schoolboys 6. Thus Exeter which gave our team a thoroughly hard contest was unable to score on either of our opponents of the next two weeks...
...seaman navigates his vessel in all sorts of weather, but skill in local weather forecasting, and a practical knowledge of the laws of storms, are invaluable in making possible a speedier, safer and more successful voyage. Similarly, the navigator of the air, though war service often involves flying under atmospheric conditions far from favorable, inevitably finds, sooner or later, that the more he knows about the air which he is navigating, the better equipped he is as a fighter, as a photographer, or on reconnaissance work. At critical times, meteorological knowledge has time and again proved its practical value...
...number of lectures in the two Military Science courses will be decreased to one. Instead, an extra drill will be held for the whole Corps from 4.30 to 5.30 every Friday, as it has been thought wise to include as much outdoor work as possible in the training before weather conditions become unfavorable...
About 20 men reported for the first soccer practice yesterday in spite of the discouraging weather conditions. Several members of the last year's squad were present, among them E. E. Lucas '19 and W. W. Rice...