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...farmers of the state have again brought the question of Daylight Saving Repent before the General Court of Massachusetts. The renewed attempt to abolish the extra hour of daylight, which is now provided for by a state law, is backed by a systematic canvass of the rural districts of the state for signatures to a petition, in accord with the united protest of farmers throughout the country against daylight saving; their opposition being based on a claim that it causes difficulties in labor conditions...
...Ideal weather conditions will permit the race to start on time (5 o'clock) over the upstream course, Rough water will necessitate a postponement until 7, owing to the turn of the tide at about 6, and also a reversal of the course. The confusion of time necessitated by daylight saving adds to the difficulty. The variety of this announcement on the part of the Regatta Committee would lead the uninitiated to believe it a departure from the usual custom. Memories of last year mark 7 as comparatively early. But be that...
...University will take its annual spring field trip, the goal of which is Cape Ann. The party, composed of the club and all members of the University who are interested, beside a number of Graduate School members of the Geological Faculty, will leave the North Station at 8.17, daylight-saving time, on the Rockport train, and on the return will arrive in Boston at 6.23. At the Cape they will see the granite quarries, collect minerals, and study the raised beaches and other geological phenomena near Gloucester...
...students are reminded that the Daylight Saving law went into effect in Massachusetts Sunday morning, and that all College exercises will be conducted in accordance with the new time schedule. The College Office announces that misunderstandings due to this change will not be accepted as excuses for cuts...
...this serves to drive into our minds the need for uniformity in clock-regulation, if in no other field of our activity. A large part of our people believe in Daylight Saving; the CRIMSON earnestly hopes that their wishes will be carried into effect. But if Daylight Saving is to be adopted at all, it should be by some method that will secure uniformity throughout larger areas than single city wards. We are so closely interdependent that any measure of local option is sure to cause great inconvenience to many. Daylight Saving is a matter for Congress alone; we hope...