Word: getting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...therefore go to bed an hour earlier, for we do not believe anyone will keep to his accustomed habits if he loses sleep thereby. At the time the change is scheduled to go into effect, the sun will rise almost half an hour sooner than now. The man who gets up at 6.15 therefore, instead of 7.15, can dress himself by daylight. Certainly there will be no wasted electricity here. On the other end, hower, he goes to bed at 10 o'clock in place of 11, and so saves one hour of electricity. Although few students rise this early...
...this year is due to a number of causes, the chief being that in the fall, work was started three seeks later than usual. Besides the handicap of ordinary war conditions, the insertion of a war directory was responsible for much of the delay, for it was desired to get the latest possible information on men in the service. This list is necessarily somewhat inaccurate, though the information is correct to the editors knowledge...
...when there's anything to get...
...hoped that as many men as possible may have their photographs taken during the mid-year period. The fact is again emphasized that all Seniors who are leaving after the examinations make their appointments before that time, since it will be the last opportunity for them to get their pictures in the Album...
...feel that the writer has overlooked much that is worthy in this scheme. It is not advocated that students go to bed late and get up early. The idea is rather to go to bed earlier and get up early. We admit that habits are a difficult thing to change, but we rather rely on the inherent rationality of man. There are 1,681 undergraduates in College. If only half of them realized that to get up an hour earlier and do good work meant getting to bed an hour earlier, this would mean the saving of 840 hours...