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...electricity needed could be furnished by the dynamo-electric machine in Boylston Hall which is under the charge of the assistants .This would necessitate only a short line of wires from one building to the others. To defray the expenses, which would be slight after the plant was put in, the college could certainly find the means. For supplying the plant either a popular subscription might be raised or some one of the friends of education be appealed to for funds. Many men would be willing to stand their share if the first method were to be adopted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/29/1884 | See Source »

...they could possibly find room for, but the case is exactly the opposite. Other papers are constantly flooded with voluntary contributions, but in college, where it would be presumed all the students would know how to write and would want to write, there is evidenced an astonishing unwillingness to put pen to paper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/29/1884 | See Source »

...small visiting card. By cutting this twice longitudinally from one end almost to the other, you will have a three-legged book-mark which rides a-straddle on the page, one leg on the page below and two on the page you wish the book to open at. Never put in a soiled playing card, or a stained envelope, or a bit of dirty string or a piece of damp newspaper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CARE OF BOOKS. | 1/28/1884 | See Source »

...individuality by being covered." these latter suggestions apply more to the care of numbers of books together. In that connection it has been said that "you should never attempt to classify books on your shelves by the colors of the bindings, or by the sizes of the books themselves. Put the works of an author together, so far as possible, however incongruous their sizes may be. And try to keep books on the same and kindred subjects as close together as may be convenient...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CARE OF BOOKS. | 1/28/1884 | See Source »

...patronage of several influential democratic politicians. The attempt to combine pathology and politics has been unsuccessful from the beginning, and while the Dean of the faculty, Dr. Bauer, and Dr. Hazard, a medical member of the Executive Committee, have drawn their salaries regularly, the other professors have been put off from time to time with unwritten promises to pay. This, together with a lordly way the directors had of disregarding any request made by the faculty or students, has led to open revolt. Yesterday eight of the professors and all the students struck, and today the faculty consists if three...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/26/1884 | See Source »