Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...slight change of policy in regard to the payment of dividends will be inaugurated this autumn. Heretofore the dividend checks have been distributed in October or November, but in any case several weeks after the opening of the University. The dividends for the year 1916-1917, however, will be paid on and after September 24. After deducting from the profits certain amounts for the reserves there remained available for dividends at the main store $16,894.13 and at the Technology branch $5,928.51, a total of $22,822.64. The amount so available a year ago was $15,202.84. Last year...
...present war has provided an unusual opportunity to study the influence of weather upon modern military operations. Each war zone has its own special climatic types, and present its own peculiar problems. On the western front, the chief difficulty has been the autumn and winter rains, not so much because these are unusually heavy, but because of their frequency. On the eastern front the winters are more severe than in the west. There has been more suffering on account of the cold, and because of snow storms. The importance of long spells of freezing weather, during which alone the marshes...
...well known talent in production of Mr. Iden Payne. Settings, costumes, etc., are arranged to the key of 1830, the age of tasseled canes and wonderful waistcoats, when a copy of Don Juan lay on the dressing tables of ladies of fashion; a picture of old England in its autumn, smiling through the mist of factory smoke just beginning to rise. Unfortunately a production set in so delightful a key has to be something more than a mere picture, or even a mere dramatization; it ought to be a play in its own right, and this "Major Pendennis...
...McKinley's group of piano pieces showed distinct ability in realizing a meditative and poetic atmosphere full of harmonic charm, and his Autumn Rain was especially to be commended for its technical ingenuity and its imaginative mood...
...Freshman rowing season was started yesterday when 60 candidates reported to Coach Haines at the Newell Boathouse. This number, however, is very much under the average number in the past and additional candidates are wanted. Over 100 Freshmen reported for fall rowing last autumn and over 110 men were out for the 1919 crews at this time last year. All new men should report at Newell this afternoon at 3.45 o'clock...