Word: rising
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...demand for surgeons will grow. At present a large force is needed to prevent sickness, but an even larger one will be necessary in a few months to repair the injuries caused by the Boches. These men must come from special institutions with special training, for doctors do not rise from the ranks. Just as some students are given particular instruction that they may become line officers, so others must learn the medical profession. The duty of anyone who has intended to study medicine is to follow out his schedule. Though he may erroneously believe that the country demands...
...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, for we do not believe anyone will keep to his accustomed habits if he loses sleep thereby. At the time the change is scheduled to go into effect, the sun will rise almost half an hour sooner than...
...hour earlier in the 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...
...matter of fuel conservation, as I understand, is in the hands of Mr. Storrow, and even though he may advocate "early to bed and late to rise"--"a surely ill-advised principle,"--so much as I dislike as a liberty-loving American, to be regulated under a rapidly tending Prussianistic system. I am nevertheless satisfied to leave it all to Mr. Storrow until he is proved incompetent...
...hour earlier, and thereby to substitute an hour of inexpensive sunlight for expensive kilowatts and calories. Then, too, if Mr. Storrow's program is followed there will be fewer reasons for late hours than formerly--and "early to bed and late to rise" would surely be an ill advised principle, although the fuel administration may seem to advocate...