Word: coal
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Although the measure has been disposed of, the situation is unchanged. In spite of five holidays and plans for festive Mondays, neither anthracite nor bituminous is more plentiful. The coal question remains a serious thing. It was thought that the Student Council's plan of early retiring and early rising would contribute Harvard's small share to the solution of this problem. The student body has thought otherwise. Among the opponents of this plan there were heard those who condemned official action and advocated individual effort. Let every individual have it as his duty to economize coal and its derivatives...
...hour of electricity. Although few students rise this early, yet the proposition is just as true for all who get up later. Surely such conservation of artificial light means less waste of fuel. By this proposition, which is practically a daylight-saving scheme, we can in fact reduce our coal consumption...
...will not save much coal. If all the industries of this country must shut down for a total of 15 days, it would seem that any saving of coal, however small, is important...
What is the real and vital point in favor of the daylight-saving plan? The greatest argument is in its moral effect, and in its bringing home the war to each student. You read one Senior's communication about "sugarless and coal-less" days. Has the Harvard undergraduate ever economized in sugar or coal...
...President of the United States, through the Fuel Administrator, favors the saving of coal. James J. Storrow, Fuel Administrator of Massachusetts, favors the daylight saying plan at Harvard. President. Lowell favors this plan, as does your Student Council. Let every man who votes today realize that all mature opinion is in favor of the adoption of the daylight-saving plan; let him realize that his vole "yes" is merely an expression of what older men think about the winning of this war, and what be, himself, thinks deep down. RICHARD ROELOFS...