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There is a plan afloat at Yale to build a tank large enough to contain a stationary shell, in which the crew can get practice in rowing on water during the winter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 1/4/1887 | See Source »

...bids fair to rival in the magnificence of the endowment, and in the completeness of its equipment, the famous colleges of the East. Stanford University promises to be in time, to the States of the Pacific Coast what Harvard or Yale is to the Eastern States. Judging from the plan of Gen. Francis A. Walker, and remembering the Senator Stanford offers several millions for the establishment of the university, we may well feel justified in phrophesying a brilliant future for the university that is to be. Sad as it may be to think that the future classes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/4/1887 | See Source »

...stock of J. W. White's Plan of Athens...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Co-operative Society Bulletin. | 12/22/1886 | See Source »

...possible to state with a great degree of certainty that this drawback will be removed and that the College Library will be lighted with incandescent electric light. For some months past the authorities have been investigating the feasibility of such a plan and have now determined upon adopting it. The one great difficulty in their way was the absence of any available funds for putting light of any kind into the library. But Harvard never lacks friends in need, and a number of gentlemen were found who were willing to contribute for so worthy a purpose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Electric Light in the Library. | 12/22/1886 | See Source »

Whatever the details of the plan may be, every earnest worker in college will be glad to learn that there is to be electric light in the library...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Electric Light in the Library. | 12/22/1886 | See Source »