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This is undoubtedly due to the fact that Daylight Saving keeps would-be athletes, particularly crew and baseball men, out working under zealous coaches until just the hour the doors close. Might it not be arranged with Mr. Roy L. Westcott, Superintendent of the Freshman Dining Halls, to change the hours of the evening meal from 5.30-7.00 to 6.00-7.30 P. M. without seriously disarranging the routine? Respectfully Yours, F. S. Cheever...
With the advent of Daylight Saving there commences a new era. Incidently perhaps, it is to herald this new era that Daylight Saving-a phrase which seems to illustrate how the economy of the government has penetrated even into the world of nature-was invented, in view of the deplorable scarcity of cuckoos that might take upon themselves the task of loudly singing "Summer is icumin in." However that may be, the Vagabond, last Saturday, having seen in the papers that this great invention-which has done more for sharpening the mind of the nation than cross word puzzles...
...first place, daylight saving begins next week and it would prove amusing during an idle hour or so to figure out once more whether one should add that extra hour or subtract it and still catch his train. Having made the computation, he can record the results for use when he next wants to use such information and then if he ever really wants to be sure he can telephone the railroad station...
Every day in Manhattan hundreds of Interborough Rapid Transit subways charge through the warm odorous gloom underneath the streets. Uptown they soar to daylight on elevated tracks, downtown they dip beneath the east river to Brooklyn. I. R. T. advertisements say that 1,000,000 people ride them daily. Each ride costs a nickel. I. R. T. potentates have long claimed that the nickel fare is not enough to meet expenses...
...proposal to put Chicago on Eastern Standard (New York) time. Exponents of the change argued that Chicago and New York should have the same financial hours. Objectors argued that Chicago would have to put its clocks two hours ahead of the present schedule when New York goes on daylight saving time, early risers would get out of bed in darkness. Furthermore, keeping time with New York would involve time conflicts with Chicago's nearer friends, Omaha, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Kansas City...