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...writing this communication as one of the members of the Student Council. The Council, you remember, voted unanimously to adopt the daylight-saving plan...
...measure which you are urging in regard to starting the daily schedule of Harvard an hour earlier in order to economize the use of artificial light. I hope that the University authorities will endorse the plan, and that other colleges of the state will be able to adopt the same proposal. JAMES J. STORROW...
...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...
...much in advance as possible, and will send their qualifications and desires for future employment to the Bureau here, which will try to have a place for them when they arrive. The Bureau will be ready to steer those who have been severely injured and may have to adopt new activities. It will be the work of the Bureau to make them acquainted with the new conditions which will exist here, and help them to get a good and prompt start at rebuilding...
...matter of fact, a continuous decrease is indicated in many ways; the likelihood of younger draftees, the increasing economy of money, and the experience of foreign universities. As war deficits exist already, and as they will surely grow no less under present conditions, every college is forced to adopt new methods of raising or keeping its funds...