Word: winter
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University attempted in January to adopt this plan with the purpose of conserving fuel. At the time it was rejected as being inexpedient and as of little practical value. Daylight-saving during the winter has met with little favor. The plan now adopted, however, provides for a need which has long been felt in this country. In Europe, moving the clock forward during the summer months has been put to practical effect, and its efficiency has thoroughly been demonstrated...
With the coming of the spring season and warmer weather, military work, which at all the colleges has been more or less dormant during the winter, is beginning to become intensive again...
Honors in the interdormitory relay race and the Freshman-Upperclass relay, the last two events of the mid-winter track carnival held yesterday afternoon, went to Standish Hall and the Freshman Class. Bad weather conditions caused the postponement of these races, which were originally scheduled for last Thursday and Friday...
...dance this winter will be given on a far more economical basis than in previous years, and whatever profit is made will be turned over to the Red Cross...
...result of continued rains the board track on Soldiers Field was altogether too slippery yesterday afternoon for the complete program of events as announced for the second day of the annual mid-winter track carnival to be run off. Only a small number of men responded to the summons for the interdormitory and interclass relay races, and it was decided, therefore, to hold only the seven-lap and the 20-lap handicap races for entrants from any class in the University. Both these runs were necessarily made in unusually slow time, as the contestants had great difficulty in keeping...