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...last the inventive genius of Edison has discovered a way by which Harvard students can reach Boston in five seconds, instead of half an hour. No longer will we have to wait in Boston for half-past cars. Impudent conductors will trouble us no more. Soon we will not be obliged to give up our seats to ladies entering the car at the railroad-crossing, nor shall we have the pleasure of riding in town seated next to the professor whose recitations we have been cutting for the past week...
EDISON.The next morning found me in New York, closeted with Edison. He divulged to me his discovery in these words: "I have often thought how great a pity it is that you students are so inconvenienced by the street-car arrangement, and how much you lose by being so far from the literary air of Boston; so, when I learned that there was no chance of an elevated road to Boston, I decided to tell you of my invention. I propose to put a pneumatic tube underground from Cambridge to Boston...
PROFESSOR TROWBRIDGE has gone to New York to witness Edison's experiments...
...Marking Machine! Since Edison's great discoveries and inventions we have been prepared for something still more marvellous, but did the most imaginative ever dream of such a machine? Last winter the Advocate suggested plank walks for the Yard, - an original, a grand idea, - but surely the same head did not invent this machine...
...Edison Electric Pen is being tested by the Faculty with a view to its purchase for the copying of college documents, examination-papers...