Word: take
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...certain rather old-fashioned Corliss steam engine requires 2.6 pounds of coal per horsepower per hour. Let us allow three, to take dynamo and transmission losses into consideration...
When Coach Donovan receives his final orders he will probably take up his work somewhere in the South. Upon his departure, the direction of the informal University and the Freshman track teams will be assigned to Coach Farrell, who has been assistant coach since the beginning of the track season...
This morning I read with great consternation your leading editorial on "Eight O'clock Nine O'clock." That the Student Council should take upon itself the regulation of College hours and the College fuel conservation program, and that the editorial chairman of your good paper should support so vivaciously and perhaps cocksure this step, is, I believe, an example of high-handed interference in the privileges and duties of certain College officials by immature undergraduates...
...morning, which would entail absolutely no saving in fuel heat. And, as for the question of lights, I am fairly positive that at this season of the year when the sun is hidden so much we would not find the "inexpensive sunlight" satisfactory to rise by or even take notes by at the hour of eight. As for actual earlier retiring, there still remains the same amount of study and after all, the time of retiring is dependent on habit developed through years and changed, if ever, only with extreme difficulty...
...half of them realized that to get up an hour earlier and do good work meant getting to bed an hour earlier, this would mean the saving of 840 hours of light each day. We ought to admit that half of our undergraduates are rational. This also does not take into consideration the saving in the library and other buildings. College chapel will simply be an hour earlier. Everything will be the same except that we shall be doing things one hour earlier. If we are willing to assist the Fuel Board in this patriotic work, the saving will...