Word: planning
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...request has been made for some figures relative to the proposed daylight-saving plan. I submit a rough calculation of the fuel which would be saved by extinguishing lights one hour earlier each night. This would be the main item in the direct saving, for the same amount of heat would be required, whatever the hours of beginning and ending work, if the length of the day is to be the same. This calculation does not pretend to be exact. From the nature of the case it cannot be, but it will serve as a basis...
...development of athletic sports as a means of military training and we offer the facilities of the Association to the use of the student battalion for that purpose; and in the second place, we approve the idea of having intercollegiate athletic competition on a simple and inexpensive plan which shall not interfere with the military training, but which shall maintain the athletic traditions of Princeton...
...action of the Dance Committee is particularly relevant to the fuel-saving scheme now before the undergraduates, and is in keeping with this proposition. Should the College declare itself in favor of the plan of moving all academic engagements forward one hour and the Faculty later adopt it, it would be highly out of place for the Junior Class to hold a function which would be contrary to the entire purpose of the plan of economizing electric lights by the use of the natural light of the early morning. The stand taken in regard to the Junior Dance will probably...
...trustees of the University of Pennsylvania have taken no definite action on the plan to admit women students to the university. Failure to act was due probably to a student mass-meeting at which resolutions were passed calling upon the trustees to postpone action. As a result the matter was referred to a special committee to be appointed by Provost Smith. As the board will not meet again for three months, it will be impossible in any event to open the university to women until fall...
...years ago by a Philadelphia merchant for the education of women at the university, be used to build a separate college for women. This fund now amounts to more than half a million dollars. It was also suggested that the fund might be used in event of the first plan proving impracticable, to employ enough additional instructors and professors to provide separate classes for the men and women students...