Word: coal
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Since moderate regulation has failed to check the coal consumption sufficiently, drastic action is resorted to. Whether the University is directly affected, we do not yet know. Some branches certainly will be, and it is quite possible that the entire College may have holidays thrust upon it. In such an event we expect a long weekend, fewer classes, and a confused schedule. The inconvenience created would certainly be considerable, yet necessity may be greater. Harmful as such action is, however, it seems the lesser of two evils. If we are forced to suspend work temporarily, we do so that more...
...Junior Dance Committee met last evening and decided that in view of the serious situation due to the coal shortage, it would be inadvisable to hold the dance until such time as that situation should change for the better. The original plan was to give the dance in the Union on February 12. This arrangement would have been within the letter of Fuel Administrator Storrow's ruling in regard to the 10 o'clock closing hour, for the Union is not considered either a public or a private dance hall, but the committee felt that to postpone the function would...
Today's CRIMSON contains an account of a proposal to save coal by advancing all College engagements by one hour. This proposal, put forward by the Student Council, is to be voted on next week by the student body. May I suggest that if the Student Council desires a large affirmative vote, it would do well to explain somewhat explicitly in these columns just how the change of hours would produce the desired economy...
...still held out, however to those members of the Junior Class who have anticipated this event as one of the land-marks of the year, that the dance will be given in the spring. There seems to be no reason to doubt that the present situation in regard to coal 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...
That holding the nine o'clock classes at eight o'clock "of course", would "economize coal," I would be given to deny even after considerable thought. Certainly the lecture and recitation rooms would have to be heated an hour earlier in the morning, which would entail absolutely no saving in fuel heat. And, as for the question of lights, I am fairly positive that at this season of the year when the sun is hidden so much we would not find the "inexpensive sunlight" satisfactory to rise by or even take notes by at the hour of eight...