Word: clocking
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...Reverand Arthur Cushman McGiffert, D.D., President of the Union Theological Seminary, N. Y., will conduct the services in Appleton Chapel tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock...
Symphony Hall in Boston will be the scene of the first concert on Sunday afternoon at 3.30 o'clock when, in conjunction with the Symphony Orchestra members of the Club will sing for the benefit of the orchestra's Pension Fund...
...thought that Captain Gulliver's watch was his god, because he said that he consulted it before taking any important action. Consequently, when every one of our official bodies, from state legislatures down to city councils and boards of selectmen, try to establish their own regulations in regard to clock-worship (chronometrolatry, if a more exact term is desired), the effects are apt to be disastrous. We have read of New Jersey court-houses, where the judge arrived an hour early and the jury an hour late, while the prisoner and the witnesses were kept in agonized suspense...
...this serves to drive into our minds the need for uniformity in clock-regulation, if in no other field of our activity. A large part of our people believe in Daylight Saving; the CRIMSON earnestly hopes that their wishes will be carried into effect. But if Daylight Saving is to be adopted at all, it should be by some method that will secure uniformity throughout larger areas than single city wards. We are so closely interdependent that any measure of local option is sure to cause great inconvenience to many. Daylight Saving is a matter for Congress alone; we hope...
Arrangements have been made to have Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, who will speak in the Living Room of the Union on Thursday evening, April 29, at 8 o'clock, introduced by Robert Frost, who is president of the New England Poetry Club. Mr. Frost is now in Franconia, New Hampshire, where he has been spending the winter. He has been in poor health during the winter, but expects to be able to make the trip to Boston on April...