Word: daylighted
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...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 now. The man who gets up at 6.15 therefore, instead of 7.15, can dress himself by daylight. Certainly there will be no wasted electricity here. On the other end, hower, he goes to bed at 10 o'clock in place of 11, and so saves one hour of electricity. Although few students rise this early, yet the proposition is just as true...
...days are already appreciably longer. The extra hour of daylight becomes a factor...
...efficiency in College. For exactly the same reason that an army camp rises early, the College should arouse itself at least an hour earlier and find itself incalculably better in spirit and efficiency. From a broad and all-seeing standpoint, he is a slacker who votes "no" on daylight-saving, and this we must all conclude and agree on. A. BURROUGHS...
...voting by the student body of the University on the daylight-saving plan, in accordance with the resolution of the Student Council adopted last Tuesday, will be held tomorrow in the Union, at the CRIMSON Building, and in the Smith Halls Common Room. The polls in these three places will be open from 9 to 6 o'clock and the balloting will be under the direction of poll watchers appointed by the Student Council from the Sophomore and Freshman classes...
...therefore is naturally in favor of any movement to save coal, his statement is of great influential value. Mr. Storrow is a man of business ability; he would not urge us to take such a drastic move if it were not worth while. The importance of the new daylight plan as advocated by the Student Council comes not so much from the fact that we shall probably save considerable fuel by acting as Mr. Storrow advocates, but rather because such a move would be an example to the entire country. Harvard's lead has been followed by other communities...