Word: coal
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Owing to the shortage of coal, which has occasioned the closing of the Locker Building, the opening of the informal and Freshman crew season has been definitely postponed until Monday, March 4. It is expected that by that time the fuel situation will have so changed as to warrant the opening of the Newell Boathouse and the inauguration of the annual spring work...
...Cambridge school principals and officials of the University at the offices of Mr. Fitzgerald, superintendent of the Public School Association, it was announced yesterday that the University would offer instruction to a large number of Cambridge school children who are at present out of school on account of the coal shortage. The buildings in which the instruction is to take place are the Fogg Art Museum and the University Museum...
...which has almost been accomplished in this year's study will be practically lost. There is a vast distance between the nearly finished and the finished product. We may not be acquainted with the facts which the Fuel Administration has, but it seems rather clear that the amount of coal saved by closing the colleges will not compensate the loss which thousands of students will undergo...
...conference of the heads of universities and colleges of New England was called last Saturday by Fuel Administrator James J. Storrow '85 to discuss the question of closing all the colleges as a means of economizing coal in the present fuel crisis. Although the proposal had received considerable support from the conservation officials, the arguments put forth by the assembled presidents demonstrated that it would not be practical. Mr. Storrow is withholding his final opinion on the subject until today, but it seems improbable that he will order any limitation of the college sessions. "I am inclined...
Lack of facilities for winter rowing will delay the start of the crew practice so that oarsmen will not report at the Locker Building today as had been originally planned. Until the coal shortage is relieved and the Locker Building is reopened there will be no machine work. Practice will be started on the rowing machines recently transferred to the Locker Building as soon as possible...