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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...majority of us deplore the failure of Congress to retain the Daylight Saving Bill. The opposition which destroyed it seems to have come from the Middle West, and possibly from the less evident, but all-powerful gas and electric light interests. New York City, by passing its own daylight saving ordinance, shows that it realizes the manifold benefits accruing from the Federal enactment and that it does not plan to await Congressional action...
...involving a tremendous loss in production. Mr. H. N. Taylor., president of the National Coal Association, stated under oath that the workers received from five to fifteen dollars a day. Increasing this wage by sixty percent would, in a short time, at the expense of the public, breed a new stock of millionaires of the leisure class. Do the mine workers really believe they are going to better their conditions by their demands? Do they not realize that the loss they produce, the less other industries will produce? Scarcity of production and our heavy shipments to Europe are the underlying...
...Reverend George Alexander Johnston Ross, D. D., Professor of Homeiletics at Union Theological Seminary, New York, will conduct morning prayers this morning and every morning this week at 8.45 o'clock. The services will close promptly at 9 o'clock to allow students to reach their classes at that hour...
...committee which submits the report is composed of Langdon P. Marvin '98, chairman; Major-General Leonard Wood, M. D., '84; Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Franklin D. Roosevelt '03, Eliot Wadsworth '98, joint chairman of the Harvard Endowment Fund Committee; Arthur Woods '92, formerly Police Commissioner of New York city, and recently assistant to the Secretary of War; Henry S. Drinker, President of Lehigh University; Ira N. Hollis, Hon. A. M. '99; Samuel D. Parker '91, George Baty Blake '93, Amos Tuck French '80, George C. Shattuck '01, Alexander Whiteside '95, Grenville Clark...
Professor Whipple expects to stay at the University throughout the first-half year, but he will begin immediately to organize this new and important division. In February he will go to Geneva, Switzerland, the headquarters of the League of Red Cross Societies. He will probably spend several months in the Balkans and the Near East, returning in September...