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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Through the courtesy of President Eliot, a fuller explanation has been received of the reasons which deterred the corporation from granting the CRIMSON petition for electric lights in the library. A thorough investigation of the subject showed that of the two methods now available for introducing electricity, one is dangerous, the other too expensive. The current which supplies the incandescent lights of Cambridge is the same as that used for the are lights, except that it is lessened by reducers. The reducers, however, may at any time get out of order and allow the full current of the street lights...
Since the danger from connecting the library with outside systems is so great, the question of having the lights is narrowed down to the possibility of establishing a system within the college itself. If such a step were taken, the yard, the gymnasium, Memorial Hall, Sanders Theatre, and the Law School reading-room all ought to have the benefit of the lights, as well as the library. It has been found that the expense of the plant for such a system would be at least $20,000, and the corporation are not at present able to devote so large...
...next meeting of the club will probably be held next Thursday and if the weather is suitable, it is hoped that enough men will go up to make a success of the shoot, and not have the matches in constant danger of being closed on account of lack of interest...
...recent issue, the Amherst Student, speaking editorially of what the elective system has done to bring about a greater cordiality in the relations between professor and student, and of the good effects of that greater cordiality, says, "There is some danger, however, that the present plan will revert to the former condition, and unless some efforts are put forward in all our higher institutions of learning, we may again see the professor and student living within themselves. Very recently some of the professors at Harvard were complaining that they are fast becoming exhausted by unintermitted intercourse with students." If such...
...Union with Canada would remove all danger of invasion from the north in case of a war with England. (a) Canada was a base of operations in the war of 1812.- Johnston's Hist. of U. S., 176-180, 186-189, 192-193. (b) The protection on our northern frontier is lamentably weak.- Report of Secretary...