Word: winter
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Pierian Sodality will hold its first Annual Mid-Year Concert in the John Knowles Paine Hall of the New Music Building this evening at 8 o'clock. This concert will take the place of the Mid-Winter Pop Concert which has always been given in the Union; and was open to its members only. This year the officers have arranged to have the concert open to all members of the University free of charge...
...boxing for the individual--teaching self-defence and providing exercise--are wrapped up in the merits of the pastime from the point of view of the University. The season fits conveniently into our athletic calendar. Hockey, wrestling, and gymnastics have drawn only a fraction of the students into mid-winter sports, and boxing offers additional training for large numbers. Those who cannot compete on University teams have found a novel and strenuous way to bridge over the period between, say, fall tennis and Leiter cup baseball. These practical merits, confirmed by the excellent spirit of the spectators last night...
...Summer School of 1916 marks another advance in the abandonment of the old laissez faire policy. Not long since the Summer School seems to have been looked upon with no great favor by the authorities. The offering of courses was limited; and the "big men" of the winter session were for the most part notably absent from its Faculty. Moreover, no attention whatever was paid to the rooming and boarding problems of the students. The result has been that while such summer schools as those of Columbia and the University of California have enrolments of more than five thousand...
...innovation this year in giving its Annual Mid-Year Concert in the John Knowles Paine Hall of the Music Building next Monday at 8 o'clock. For the past few years it has been the policy of the Sodality to give a Pop Concert at the Union during the winter, so that the students of the University may get in touch with the work that the orchestra has been doing. However, this season it was felt that more men would be reached, and certainly more of the faculty, if the concert were produced free of charge in the Paine Hall...
...Yale Aviation Corps have been taken and sixty men have handed in their names as desiring training in that branch of the service. Although the membership of the Aviation Corps as it will work at Tobyhanna next summer will be limited to ten men, those competing during the winter and spring will receive valuable instruction and practice...