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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...hour. Some undergraduates even now fail to see the advantages of this plan. The first reason for its adoption and the most essential at the 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...
...University will vote today on the question of advancing the daily schedule one hour with the commencement of the second semester. On Tuesday, January 15, the Student Council authorized the balloting, and part of the resolution passed at that time stated "that in the event of favorable action by the student body, it (the one-hour advance in academic engagements) be recommended to the Faculty for their consideration and decision...
Compared with normal years, a very few men will take part in the election of officers for the Senior class tomorrow. Over four hundred members of the Class of 1918 have not returned to College this year, leaving less than a third of the Seniors to carry on the activities of the whole class. An increased responsibility rests on the shoulders of those who are left to elect the men best fitted for their work. Though an effort is being made to secure the votes of those who are in active service and away from College through the mail...
...must not look to the coal directly saved as a very powerful argument in support of the plan. Its strength must be in indirect saving, such as lightening late traffic on the Subway, and making more feasible an earlier closing. Neither does the University stand alone. It would be part of a nation-wide effort to economize; and it is not improbable that many other universities and colleges would take similar action. Most important of all, it would be a direct bit of co-operation with Fuel Administrator Storrow and his policy of saving by early stopping of the entire...
...chaos of the railroads. In addition, the needs of the small consumer for fuel will have vanished with the warmer weather. With the return of more normal conditions the practicability of holding the Junior Dance will be assured. It was, therefore, a wise step on the part of the committee to postpone rather than cancel the arrangements they had planned, for the value of one such social function to break through the monotony of the College year is not to be denied...