Word: winter
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Bullard '20, secretary-treasurer of the Sophomore Class, the 1920 treasury has the largest surplus possessed by sophomore organizations in recent years. A balance of $1,391.89 is maintained for the class finances. One reason for the large total of assets was the successful collection taken last winter, which netted...
Strict training for the University and Freshman track men for the winter relay races and indoor meets will commence on Thursday, January 3, the first day after the Christmas recess. All practice hitherto has been voluntary and attendance perfunctory, but after the vacation, a fixed regime of training will be established, and all those who report for winter track will be expected to practice every...
...heels of the ordnance embarrassment comes the news that the sanitary conditions in four of our camps are poor, that winter garments are lacking in many cases, and that much of the disease and especially of the pneumonia so prevalent in our camps is due entirely to inefficiency in supplying the men with the right kind of clothing at the right time. This state of affairs may and probably does exist in other cantonments, but Major-General Gorgas, the Surgeon-General of the Army, has only inspected four of the camps...
Gorgas reports the plumbing often defective, no base hospitals completed except at Funston, and winter overcoats issued to only a small number of men. The report reads like an account of the Spanish-American War camps, where so many thousands were killed by disease. A repetition of those days seems impossible, but we must see to it that our camps are clean, that men are not sent in herds of six thousand to places where no one is ready for them, as recently occurred at New Rochelle. The nation is willing to give its manhood up to face bullets...
That the annual Junior Dance will be held this winter, but will not be as formal as those of previous years, was decided yesterday by a temporary Junior committee. Later a class committee will be appointed to set a definite date for the occasion and to make all arrangements...