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Premier 'Herriot: "We now see the dawn and we hope to work till daylight is reached...
...Haven, April 28.-In order to keep standard time and yet enjoy the benefits of daylight saving a system was begun yesterday whereby all the regular University exercises were started one hour earlier than customary, while the clocks remained on Eastern Standard Time Thus the University offices opened this morning at 7.30 instead of 8.30 o'clock and all classes and athletic appointments were advanced an hour...
...everybody would have to do penance by going to nine o'clock classes at a quarter to nine, lectures would commence during that portion of the day now used by a large body of undergraduates for much more important things, such as sleeping or breakfasting. As supplementary to the daylight-saving regulations, this plan is admirable; but as an aid to the potential Student Chapel-goer it seems of doubtful value...
Blind flight still remains a source of great peril to aviators. Brooks Hyde Pearson, air mail pilot, up in a blinding snowstorm, crashed into trees high up in the Alleghany Mountains. A farmer of Curwensville, Pa., saw the plane in distress, heard the crash and at daylight found the burnt remains of plane and pilot after several hours' search. Pearson had in his plane the usual flying instruments, totally insufficient in snow, fog or violent rain. Fortunately, the Army Air Service is aware of this serious problem in air navigation. Last week Eugene H. Barksdale (lieutenant) and Bradley Jones...
Radio experts are of the opinion that the cause of the prolonged difficulty in communicating with the MacMillan party was the long Arctic Summer. Not all amateurs realize that the sun's rays affect detrimentally radio transmission in daylight by expanding the atmosphere and partly disintegrating it (a process called ionization...