On the homepage today, I have a piece called “A Political Testimony: The life of a conservative from Reagan to Trump.” It will not be for everybody (what is?). It will be for some.

Yesterday, I published some mail from readers on the question “What is the most beautiful college campus?” Since then, an alumnus of Wake Forest has written me to extol the virtues of that university and its campus. I wanted to publish his P.S.:

The Secrest Artist Series brings in world-class music programming and offers it for free: I went to just about every concert the series put on and remain grateful for the opportunity to hear that music as a young person. It shapes you and sets a kind of bar. Invaluable. That is what first-class educational philanthropy looks like.

According to a Wake Forest webpage, the series was endowed in 1987 by Marion Secrest, “a local performing-arts patron,” in honor of her late husband, Willis. Concerts are to be free to students, faculty, and staff. A remarkable gift.

In my Impromptus yesterday, I spoke of the time — as in daylight-saving versus standard. Some people want standard all year; some people want daylight-saving all year; some are content with the bifurcation.

Several readers wrote to tell me, or remind me, of an experiment, 50 years ago. At the beginning of 1974, the federal government mandated “permanent” daylight-saving time. This was in response to the oil crisis. To read about this episode, try this article from Smithsonian. The move proved unpopular, however, and it was reversed in October (ten months later).

There was a lot going on that year, 1974. The initial bill was signed by President Nixon; the subsequent bill, reversing the initial, was signed by President Ford.

Responding to my “Bloomington (Ind.) Journal,” a reader writes,

As a 1983 graduate of IU (and proud Hoosier, though now misplaced in Manhattan), thank you so much for your Bloomington article. Not a day goes by — even 41 years after I graduated — that I don’t feel deep gratitude for IU and that divine town.

He has a P.S.:

My family does sometimes worry that I go to Joshua Bell and Chris Botti concerts nearly as often as Deadheads catch the Grateful Dead.

Bell (violin) and Botti (trumpet) are both IU grads, a few years apart.

In that journal of mine, I commented on the Indianapolis Colts, a team once in Baltimore. A reader writes,

You have reminded me of an old trivia question: Who is the only man to coach the same team in two different cities and two different teams in the same city?

The answer: Ted Marchibroda. He coached the Colts in Baltimore and Indianapolis, and also the Ravens in Baltimore.