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...present time, is the conservation of fuel. Although this will hardly be obtained through economizing heat, since college buildings are kept warm a definite part of the day under any circumstances, yet it can be secured by utilizing less artificial light. According to the proposed idea, everybody would rise one hour earlier, and 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...
Besides this actual gain, there is the moral one which comes from enforcing a patriotic principle. Just as any one individual household saves little white flour by using graham twice a week, so we conserve only a relatively small amount of fuel by dimming out lights. But, as the household, because it has the spirit, helps materially to prevent waste, so the student body can check needless consumption. We shall back up an actual physical profit by the knowledge of having done as much as possible to preserve the vital supplies of the nation...
...country. The very inconvenience that is likely to result helps rather than hinders, as we show thereby our willingness to do what we believe most patriotic. Certainly we would not urge a measure which entails so many minor difficulties unless we were convinced the end justified the trouble. By one such example, however, it is possible to inculcate especially in those affected some notion that they are citizens of a nation in arms. Few of us have really felt the "pinch of war," yet if we show ourselves willing to undergo a slight trouble for the sake of a principle...
...RESOLVED; First, that the Student Council of Harvard University is strongly in favor of changing the time schedule of the University so that all academic engagements will be advanced one hour; second, that the question be submitted to a vote of the student body on Tuesday, January 22nd; and third, that in the event of favorable action by the student body, it be recommended to the Faculty for their consideration and decision...
...One thousand-yard run: F. L. A. Cady '21, A. E. Chambers '21, C. H. Corning '20, D. J. Duggan '20, W. H. W. H. Goodwin '20, N. R. Knox '21, B. Lewis '20, J. P. McAdams '21, J. E. Nally '21, D. H. Warrall...