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...available for use if the turn-the-clock-ahead bill, of which Senator Calder is sponsor, had been passed in time to have been in operation during the spring and summer months of 1917. The estimate is that of the United States Chamber of Commerce, based on Daylight saving being in effect "only for the shortest period that has been suggested and at a time when there is least need for artificial heat and light...
...emergency war measure, Dartmouth has decided to adopt a daylight-saving plan. Beginning Saturday night, after the college clock has struck nine, all clocks in the precinct will be moved ahead an hour. This will give the college an hour more of daylight each...
Professor Pickering, of the Harvard Observatory, an expert and renowned man of science, denounces the "daylight saving" trick with the clock as a foolish and useless fiction. His opinion will have great weight and will carry conviction to the many who have hitherto regarded the scheme as a more or less successful plan to fool Mother Nature and her children at the same time...
...order of seniority, each accupying one week. Inasmuch as these devotional exercises were frequently performed in an indifferent and perfunctory manner by those who had little or no interest in them they were far from edifying, and often distasteful to the students. Being obliged to rise before daylight, to go through the winter's storms and stand shivering in a cold room, listening to what seemed to be mere routine, even in the opinion of those who conducted it, and then going to recitations before they had breakfasted, it is not surprising that a spirit of discontent was created which...
...things that could happen in the open daylight of that Harvard square! Perhaps Dickey initiations took the edge off the strangeness of these events. Anyhow, reference has been made to fairy tales,--and this play may be allowed even greater license. Was it not a farce