Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Besides this actual gain, there is the moral one which comes from enforcing a patriotic principle. Just as any one individual household saves little white flour by using graham twice a week, so we conserve only a relatively small amount of fuel by dimming out lights. But, as the household, because it has the spirit, helps materially to prevent waste, so the student body can check needless consumption. We shall back up an actual physical profit by the knowledge of having done as much as possible to preserve the vital supplies of the nation...
...request has been made for some figures relative to the proposed daylight-saving plan. I submit a rough calculation of the fuel which would be saved by extinguishing lights one hour earlier each night. This would be the main item in the direct saving, for the same amount of heat would be required, whatever the hours of beginning and ending work, if the length of the day is to be the same. This calculation does not pretend to be exact. From the nature of the case it cannot be, but it will serve as a basis...
...courses on Mondays. All the College buildings which are being made use of by different branches of the Government service and all the dormitories would have to be heated as usual, so that only a few buildings such as Sever and Emerson Halls could be closed. The extra amount of fuel needed to heat these buildings would therefore be negligible...
...organized and is open to all members of the University. This course, the meetings of which are to be held at Boston University, will extend throughout a period of three months. There will be no expense attached, instruction will be individual and under the tutelage of experts, and the amount of time occupied will consist only of weekly meetings coming every Thursday. The period of apprenticeship over, a scout master is expected to devote two hours a week to evening drill in addition to taking charge of an occasional field excursion...
...voted to have the College pass judgment on the question, and if an affirmative verdict were returned, to place the matter before the Faculty, who would make the final decision. It was not expected that this measure would sail right through without opposition, for it entails a certain amount of inconvenience. An opinion full of opposition is published in low in which the writer sincerely disagrees with the proposed plan. This is just what the Student Council wants, for such a change would never be made if the student body is not behind...