Word: winter
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...authors, will speak upon some subject connected with the war and with his recent visit to the trenches. He is well qualified to speak in this regard, having served himself under Kitchener. He enlisted soon after the beginning of the war, and spent six months of the fall and winter of 1914-15 in training at Aldershot, England, in the Tenth Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. After training for six months, the regiment was sent to France and went into action among the "first hundred thousand." While at the front his ability and courage won him promotion to a captaincy...
...annual series of Expositions of Chamber Music by Mr. Arthur Whiting and assisting artists has been announced for the coming winter. The recitals will be given in the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall of the Music Building. Dr. Davison's series of organ recitals will also be held as in the past in the various chapels connected with the University...
...army has improved immensely during the last two months but the economic conditions are much worse. The workmen will not obey their superintendents. Russian industry has fallen off immeasurably since the revolution, to 60 or 70 per cent of what it was last year. Everyone expects serious outbreaks this winter but yet I feel sure that Russia will eventually pull through, but not without many hard knocks...
...Harvard Regiment welcomed this morning its opportunity to present arms to the Secretary of War. Organization and reorganization this corps has undergone, each time that a way has partly opened for those who were its members to enter the nation's regular services. Appearing first in the winter of 1915 as the spontaneous full-sweeping effort of Harvard undergraduates to get what training they could at a time when official opportunities for military instruction were at a minimum, the regiment at Cambridge early became a rallying point for the spirit of national service in colleges throughout the East. Improving...
...teams will be made up from companies and battalions of the Regiment, and a regular series scheduled among them. There will be no reason why some of these teams cannot play occasional games with schools near here. This arrangement, I hope, will enable more men to play hockey this winter, than ever before...