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...Class of 1949 has already announced that after the daylight ceremonies at which the Class Poet, Oratory, Ivy Orator, Odist, and Chorister offer their talents, a "Class Night" in Memorial Hall will be staged. This activity will be "something like a Freshman smoker," Class officials say, with free beer and entertainment by the Class. But any informal gathering of seniors on Class Day, especially with the accompaniment of a beverage, will undoubtedly have more of a kinship to was sails of the past than to a Freshman smoker. It remains to be seen, of course, whether or not this projected...

Author: By David E. Lilienthal jr., | Title: Gaudy Class Day Rolls On ... | 5/6/1949 | See Source »

...Travelers in Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal could count on a baffling summer. The New York Central R.R. will continue to operate on Standard time, while the New York, New Haven & Hartford this week will switch over to Daylight Saving. Sixty-three clocks in Grand Central are being refitted with two hour hands: a black one for Standard, a red one for Daylight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Apr. 25, 1949 | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...daylight saving time had begun one day earlier, Harvard might have won its golf match with MIT Saturday. As it was, darkness closed in at 6:50 p.m. before three tied games could be played off, and the match ended in a 3 1/2 to 3 1/2 deadlock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Night Stops MIT Golf Match in Tie | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

Actually, this confusion exists only on paper. The 4:15 train for Springfield will really leave at 4:15, Daylight Time, and 3:15 Standard. The solution is to look at only one timetable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Daylight Time Causes RR Confusion | 4/23/1949 | See Source »

Clocks are to be set ahead one hour tonight in celebration of the annual Going - on - Eastern - Daylight - Saving - Time - Day. The appointed hour for the change is 2 a.m. But Radcliffe just to be different, and to save its students probationary embarrassment, will make the shift at 6 a.m. instead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Daylight Time Causes RR Confusion | 4/23/1949 | See Source »

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