Word: planned
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...voting by the student body of the University on the daylight-saving plan, in accordance with the resolution of the Student Council adopted last Tuesday, will be held tomorrow in the Union, at the CRIMSON Building, and in the Smith Halls Common Room. The polls in these three places will be open from 9 to 6 o'clock and the balloting will be under the direction of poll watchers appointed by the Student Council from the Sophomore and Freshman classes...
...weeks or so during which the plan might run, counting six nights a week, the total would be approximately 50,000 pounds or 25 tons...
Even 25 tons is something to be considered in the present crisis. The recent Fuel Administration orders show how serious this is; but even so it is plain that we 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...
...heartily approve of the measure which you are urging in regard to starting the daily schedule of Harvard an hour earlier in order to economize the use of artificial light. I hope that the University authorities will endorse the plan, and that other colleges of the state will be able to adopt the same proposal. JAMES J. STORROW...
...therefore is naturally in favor of any movement to save coal, his statement is of great influential value. Mr. Storrow is a man of business ability; he would not urge us to take such a drastic move if it were not worth while. The importance of the new daylight plan as advocated by the Student Council comes not so much from the fact that we shall probably save considerable fuel by acting as Mr. Storrow advocates, but rather because such a move would be an example to the entire country. Harvard's lead has been followed by other communities...