Word: heating
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...request has been made for some figures relative to the proposed daylight-saving plan. I submit a rough calculation of the fuel which would be saved by extinguishing lights one hour earlier each night. This would be the main item in the direct saving, for the same amount of heat would be required, whatever the hours of beginning and ending work, if the length of the day is to be the same. This calculation does not pretend to be exact. From the nature of the case it cannot be, but it will serve as a basis...
...scarcely perceptible saving in coal would result from the shut-down of courses on Mondays. All the College buildings which are being made use of by different branches of the Government service and all the dormitories would have to be heated as usual, so that only a few buildings such as Sever and Emerson Halls could be closed. The extra amount of fuel needed to heat these buildings would therefore be negligible...
...first it seemed. The work normally done then would merely have been shunted onto the other five days and we should have gained nothing. As far as saving fuel is concerned the Monday-vacation scheme would have been of no avail. The Yard, as we understand, is heated by excess steam from the Cambridge Power Plant, which would have to keep open anyway. We would have saved nothing there. Dormitories would necessarily be open and light and heat would be used as on other days...
...institution will be-operating as an object lesson in this practical economy, even before the public at large has adopted it. The College cannot change the clocks of Cambridge, but it can adjust its academic schedule to conform as nearly as may be possible with the hours of natural heat and sunlight...
That holding the nine o'clock classes at eight o'clock "of course", would "economize coal," I would be given to deny even after considerable thought. Certainly the lecture and recitation rooms would have to be heated an hour earlier in the morning, which would entail absolutely no saving in fuel heat. And, as for the question of lights, I am fairly positive that at this season of the year when the sun is hidden so much we would not find the "inexpensive sunlight" satisfactory to rise by or even take notes by at the hour of eight...