Word: dartmouth
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...junior history of the class of '76 of Dartmouth College records the ingenious devices of a couple of students who wished to light the fires without rising to do it. A correspondent who sends us the following extracts vouches for the accuracy of the statements therein made: "Van. constructed during the winter an apparatus which connected an alarm clock with a system of weights and pulleys, and these again with his stove door, so that when the machine was wound up and properly adjusted it could, at the precise moment agreed upon, ring a bell, wind up a spool, drop...
...Good Literature, Episcopal Recorder, Musical Critic and Trade Review, The Wheel, Bicycling World, San Francisco Argonaut. Monthly-Musical Herald, Wheelman, Modern Age. College papers-Yale Courant, Record and News, Princetonian, Tiger, Columbia Spectator and Acta Columbiana, and all the periodicals of thirty-five other colleges, including Amherst, Brown, Williams, Dartmouth...
...shape. A new aspect is put upon affairs by the announcement that Amherst will under no circumstances remain in the association after the present year. Whether this will have any influence on the action of the convention remains to be seen. It looks now as if it would make Dartmouth's hold on her present position even more uncertain than at present, for now that Amherst is no longer to be taken into consideration, there are fewer reasons for the continuance of Dartmouth in the league. Any change that may be made by the convention in the constitution...
President Bartlett of Dartmouth College has been confined to his house for a week with a severe attack of influenza, attended with almost entire loss of voice, but is now better, and expects to be out in a few days...
...Parker and Francis J. Parker, executors of the late Chief Justice Joel Parker, have notified the trustees of Dartmouth College of their readiness to pay to the college the sum of $50,000 as the first instalment of Judge Parker's bequest for the establishment of a law department in the institution...