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With the coming of the spring season and warmer weather, military work, which at all the colleges has been more or less dormant during the winter, is beginning to become intensive again...
...University R. O. T. C. recommenced yesterday morning when companies I and K assembled on Soldiers Field for the first drill of the final half-year. For the present, the work will be confined to position and aiming drills, and bayonet exercises, but as the weather grows warmer, it will be varied with drill in close and extended order, together with calisthenics...
...will have abated by the middle of April. By that time water transportation will be completely free from ice, and the Government will have brought some order out of the chaos of the railroads. In addition, the needs of the small consumer for fuel will have vanished with the warmer weather. With the return of more normal conditions the practicability of holding the Junior Dance will be assured. It was, therefore, a wise step on the part of the committee to postpone rather than cancel the arrangements they had planned, for the value of one such social function to break...
...moment to write "recent") cold wave should have sent the mercury down five degrees lower than any previous temperature which has been officially recorded. It is conceivable that the hydrostatic pressure was increased in some way by the war psychology, and the resisting power of the neighboring warmer air decreased, but it would be hard to maintain any such thesis as that. The simple fact is that scientific and dependable records of the weather are a comparatively new thing. They extend back in this country but 44 years. And they have already gone to prove that there is no such...
...destination, and the Sunny South of New York State comes as a relief. In spite of all that has been said, Yaphank is not a bad spot to spend the winter. Undoubtedly it is less frigid than Ayer; in fact the center of Long Island is supposedly ten degrees warmer than New York City itself. The coating of snow and ice will keep the terrible dust down; the monotany of swamp-oak will be broken by this time by the newly-laid out drill grounds and cantonments. To the New Englander it will be an education to live away from...