Word: daylight
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...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...
...moment when the University is meditating as to the wisdom of moving recitations ahead one hour, Mr. Storrow has come out on the side of the daylight-savers...
...therefore is naturally in favor of any movement to save coal, his statement is of great influential value. Mr. Storrow is a man of business ability; he would not urge us to take such a drastic move if it were not worth while. The importance of the new daylight plan as advocated by the Student Council comes not so much from the fact that we shall probably save considerable fuel by acting as Mr. Storrow advocates, but rather because such a move would be an example to the entire country. Harvard's lead has been followed by other communities...
...Harvard Student Council has shown itself quick to recognize the "need of the hour" by its vote strongly favoring a daylight-saving plan for the University. If the vote of this body is supported generally by the students and, still more indispensably, by the authorities of Harvard, the institution will be-operating as an object lesson in this practical economy, even before the public at large has adopted it. The College cannot change the clocks of Cambridge, but it can adjust its academic schedule to conform as nearly as may be possible with the hours of natural heat and sunlight...
...determined there, some generations ago, by loud ringing of the chapel bell at the precise moment when the undergraduate, to whom the duty was assigned, found it possible to read, by the advancing light of day, the print of a newspaper officially approved for this delicate test. That was daylight-saving with a vengeance. --Boston Transcript...