Word: fuel
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Following the announcement of the drastic restrictions placed on lighting and heating by Fuel Administrator Garfield, W. S. Burke, inspector of University grounds and buildings, yesterday gave out a statement to the effect that the University has no cause to worry over the coal situation...
...only one of the new fuel regulations which may make itself felt at the University is the one which limits the heat used in offices, etc., to an average temperature of 68 degrees. Tuesday night at midnight the curtailment of the New England train service went into effect and it has been announced that the shortened schedule will continue for several weeks no matter how quickly the strike is settled. The B. and A. will, however, run special trains to accommodate college students returning home during the days preceeding Christmas...
That the University intends to live up to its admirable war record in the trying times of reconstruction which we are now passing through was shown by the unhesitating decision to call off the Pasadena game at the request of the fuel administration. The trip would have been of undoubted advantage to the interests of the University, and its cancellation comes as a really great disappointment to all men who are interested in the welfare of Harvard. Yet the Athletic Committee has not hesitated to sacrifice the University for the benefit of the country. Such peace-time service is without...
...absolutely certain that the trip will be carried through, due to the possibility that the Railroad Administration may request the cancellation of the trip on account of the fuel shortage. President Lowell, however, has wired to the Administration requesting the decision on the trip, and up to a late hour last night no reply had been received...
This proviso was inserted in the vote because the committee felt that there was a possibility that the plans of the football team might run counter to the wishes of the Government in the present critical fuel situation, and that this possibility ought to be guarded against. A telegram advising them of the action taken was sent the California alumni last night by Dean Briggs and Major F. W. Moore...