IMPACT: Conserving to Learn

In most years, nearly all public school students in the country would be returning to class from their Christmas vacations this week. But in this winter of the energy crisis, pupils in Delaware, Maine, Maryland and New Jersey will stay home until next Monday. Preppies at Exeter in New Hampshire and students at Harvard and Radcliffe are getting an extra week off, and Princetonians will not return to the campus until Jan. 21—if then; they are to call in for instructions beginning Jan. 16. Meanwhile, all these schools can scrimp on fuel by...

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