Word: winter
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This afternoon on the board track on Soldiers Field the list of events for the second day of the annual mid-winter track carnival will take place, if the weather permits. Today's schedule will conclude the 1918 carnival...
...with a sound general education. It cannot be denied that the further advance of the world of art and science is being hampered by the growing deficiency in the supply of our more elementary needs. The shortage of food, fuel, and transportation which came to a head this winter has been developing for years. Upon an 1880 system of agriculture and a 1900 system of transportation we have been trying to found a 1918 civilization. Even the growth of our manufacturing system has not kept pace with our demand for basic products. For a number of years the increasing demands...
Even if weather conditions are favorable this afternoon none of the remaining events of the mid-winter track carnival will take place today. An attempt will be made to complete the program tomorrow afternoon, beginning at 3.30, but it may be necessary to leave a part of the schedule over till Wednesday. At any rate, the 1921 interdormitory teams and the class relay teams will run tomorrow on the board track, and the broad-jump will be held in the cage. This means that there is still an opportunity for men who have not yet done so to take...
...what extent the war has affected University athletics was clearly shown yesterday afternoon in the first day of the annual mid-winter track carnival, the proportion of Freshman entries in the track games being larger than ever before. C. G. Krogness '21 was the individual star in the events yesterday...
...exacted from the ranks of University graduates and undergraduates a heavier toll during the past winter than it did throughout the first six months following the entrance of the United States into the European conflict. The University War Record Office announces that since October the list of casualties among the University's men engaged in active service contains 12 deaths, as compared with 10 in the months from April 6 through September and 36 before the declaration of war by the United States. This brings the losses of University men since August, 1914, to a total...