Word: winter
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...ninth of the series of war lectures given this winter under the auspices of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences will take place this evening at 8 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall, when Professor W. C. Sabine, A.M. '88, will talk on "Aviation and the War." The lecture by Colonel Sir Walter Roper Lawrence, which was to have been the eighth of the course, has been indefinitely postponed...
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...
...classes are represented. It is entirely democratic in its personnel and in its spirit. It is an army to be proud of and to be cared for. It is far from home and it will not be strange if many of the boys become homesick-especially if the winter campaign settles down to a dreary siege in the trenches...
Continuing the custom of previous years, the University track management is planning to hold this year on Soldiers Field a winter track carnival of two days' duration. At present the carnival is tentatively scheduled for March 7 and 8. Members of the University, class and dormitory teams, will be eligible to compete in the various events. Handicap races will be arranged for the carnival...
...annual winter peace flurry is blowing over. It will completely disappear when the spring offensives begin. Then Germany must be beaten in the field. Victory by economic pressure has been rendered impossible by the defection of Russia. Germany can fight on without other foreign trade if the vast resources of Russia are at her disposal, and victory by attrition, much heralded in 1915, seems more distant than ever. In spite of three years of losses greater armies will face each other across the trench lines of the Western front this spring than ever before in the conflict...