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...Princeton, 70% of the students elected the shorter course. Surveying the nation, the Association of American Colleges found that 89% of the colleges had already plumped for year-round operation to carry out the accelerated program. Women's colleges made up most of the non-speeding 11%. By this week a new collegiate pattern had taken shape...
...Business School surveys "The College in a Changing World" and finds only one thing to commend--the fact that the war has cut the college period to three years. Most students will agree that shortening their training period without lowering standards and requirements is to the good. As Dean Donham points out, even the student who must earn his expenses will gain since he can now hold a year-round...
...Princeton jointly launched a scheme to cut their course from four to less than three years by staying in session all year round. All three will let freshmen start next June instead of in September (choosing their men early by means of April College Boards). For this group, freshman "year" will run roughly from June to February; sophomore, February to September; junior, September to June; senior, June to January. > Universities in the Midwest and on the Pacific Coast, which have long been on a year-round basis (four quarters a year, including a summer one), expect more students to enroll...
...long line of men who have tried, like Joshua, to stop the sun while work was toward, last week was added Franklin Roosevelt.* The President asked Congress to pass a bill authorizing him to establish year-round, nationwide Daylight Saving Time...
...William Willett, the sun-struck Briton who fathered daylight saving, died in 1915 as warring European nations adopted "summer time." Willett argued for an 80-minute setback. U.S. Daylight Saving Father is Robert Garland, 78, of Pittsburgh, who last week opposed the President's plan for year-round daylight saving, said it would work hardship in winter...