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During the past year PBH sent out from its headquarters in the Yard approximately 300 volunteers to local organizations. Among its other activities the group sponsers Freshman social and extracurricular activities with a Radcliffe lea in the fall, a handbook distributed to the entering class, and a Freshman committee which each year investigates one first-year problem. The Class of 1945 was concerned with the question of Freshman orientation into the House system under the stress...
...Manhattan advertising agency of George Bijur, Inc. announced that it would suspend for the duration. Yet the agency had more business than ever; from Johnson & Johnson, Mutual Broadcasting, Lea & Perrins Sauce, other accounts, its billings would have topped $1,000,000 this year. Reason for quitting: George Bijur and all his executives want to enlist. Said he this week: "I don't like to quit, but I'd feel much worse if I stayed...
...chair of Henry Charles Lea professor of Medieval History has been bestowed on Charles Holt Taylor who has been a member of the faculty for 17 years...
...these outcries, lean, long Representative Clarence F. Lea of California retorted that cows, like people, soon accustom themselves to new habits; that farmers are used to summer's daylight time; that most farmers pay no attention to clocks anyhow, will work as they always have, from dawn to dusk. It was the old argument, which will never be settled so long as some men live in cities and others on farms...
Some Congressmen could not see why in winter, when days are short, the extra hour of daylight gained by sending workers home before dark would not be lost again in the morning, by getting them up before dawn. Clarence Lea explained: home consumption, morning or night, is of secondary importance; the peak consumption of power is caused by factories and offices between 5 and 7 p.m. By cutting down on this load, the Administration hopes to save 736,282,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity each year-enough juice to produce over 70,000,000 Ib. of much-needed aluminum...