Word: hourly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This evening the Student Council will meet to discuss the question of setting the daily schedule of the University back one hour in order that a corresponding amount of coal energy in the form of electric lights may be saved at the end of the day. The proposition is to secure the effects of turning back the hands of the University clocks without actually disturbing any of those venerable chronometers. If the Council approves of the measure, it will be brought before the Faculty, who will in all probability give it their support...
There are several reasons that this shift in the working hours of the University be made. Primarily, of course, it will economize coal; the eventual result will be for all undergraduates to get up and go to bed an hour earlier, and thereby to substitute an hour of inexpensive sunlight for expensive kilowatts and calories. Then, too, if Mr. Storrow's program is followed there will be fewer reasons for late hours than formerly--and "early to bed and late to rise" would surely be an ill advised principle, although the fuel administration may seem to advocate...
...Charles A. Moore, minister of the All Souls' Congregational Church of Bangor, Me., will conduct morning prayers in Appleton Chapel today and every day this week at 8.45 o'clock. The service closes promptly at 9 o'clock in order to allow students to reach their classes at that hour...
...unfortunately a true one that the upperclassmen are at present taking no interest in rowing. A year ago at this time the boathouse was packed with ambitious oarsmen; now at most two or three report. Possibly the members of the University are working too hand to take an hour off every few afternoons, but somehow we doubt it. The word "informal" should not carry with it any sort of stigma, especially as the crew is probably to row a similar Yale organization this spring...
...students at a meeting of the Christian Association in Phillips Brooks House yesterday morning on the subject, "Some Christian Responsibilities in War Time." His talk was a part of the regular Christian Association meeting and was the first of a series to be held at the same place and hour on Sunday mornings. A quartet from the Glee Club, composed of H. T. Sears '19, J. R. Campbell '19, E. S. Hardell '21 and C. P. Fuller '19, sang before Mr. Eddy's talk...