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Harvard For Light-Saving.

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The Harvard Student Council has shown itself quick to recognize the "need of the hour" by its vote strongly favoring a daylight-saving plan for the University. If the vote of this body is supported generally by the students and, still more indispensably, by the authorities of Harvard, the institution will be-operating as an object lesson in this practical economy, even before the public at large has adopted it. The College cannot change the clocks of Cambridge, but it can adjust its academic schedule to conform as nearly as may be possible with the hours of natural heat and sunlight.

In such a course is it not true that the University would be merely renewing a very old Harvard tradition? At any event, the story has often been heard that the time of the call to morning prayers was determined there, some generations ago, by loud ringing of the chapel bell at the precise moment when the undergraduate, to whom the duty was assigned, found it possible to read, by the advancing light of day, the print of a newspaper officially approved for this delicate test. That was daylight-saving with a vengeance. --Boston Transcript.

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