Word: reasonably
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...student body will decide today whether the University time schedule is to be advanced an 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...
Furthermore, there will be a new morale (which doesn't mean morals) or a new spirit of efficiency in College. For exactly the same reason that an army camp rises early, the College should arouse itself at least an hour earlier and find itself incalculably better in spirit and efficiency. From a broad and all-seeing standpoint, he is a slacker who votes "no" on daylight-saving, and this we must all conclude and agree on. A. BURROUGHS...
...factor in today's contest will be the work of the 1921 forwards. E. L. Bigelow has played a fast, heady game since the beginning of the season, and should be the mainstay of the offence. On the defence, H. P. King, by reason of his speed and shooting ability, should be very effective...
...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 in the past. There is no reason to believe that our move to save fuel will be merely a local one. We need not fear that we shall become an oasis in a reckless coal-using nation...
...expectation is still held out, however to those members of the Junior Class who have anticipated this event as one of the land-marks of the year, that the dance will be given in the spring. There seems to be no reason to doubt that the present situation in regard to coal will have abated by the middle of April. By that time water transportation will be completely free from ice, and the Government will have brought some order out of the chaos of the railroads. In addition, the needs of the small consumer for fuel will have vanished with...