Saving Daylight

(We invite all men in the University to submit communications on subject of timely interest, but assume no responsibility for sentiments expressed under this head.)

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

At this time when Boston is economically and socially seeking to forget the whine of peace-loving individuals, the least we at College can do is to set aside pacific pettiness (as exemplified in recent communications to the CRIMSON) and look at our problem of setting back the College time-table in its war-time setting.

What harm is there in getting out of bed an hour earlier? It is light enough to read at 6.30 A. M. these days. Don't let a patriotic wish to save electricity keep you in bed. Can the College fear a new experience? Are we to prate falsly of too many war-privations? It is extremely easy in these days of early closing theatres and amusements to go to bed an hour earlier. Indeed, only from the outside point of view would it be an hour earlier. To us under the new schedule we would be going to bed at our regular time. College work will not keep you from bed, for the whole schedule will be advanced as a unit with your study hour included. The College is "soft" if it fears a 7 o'clock.

The days are already appreciably longer. The extra hour of daylight becomes a factor.

Furthermore, there will be a new morale (which doesn't mean morals) or a new spirit of 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 '20.