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...entered Harvard, and was graduated with the class of '25. During his college course he received the appointment of assistant librarian, and performed the duties of the position until 1856, when he was appointed librarian. In this position he served, with some slight interruptions, until 1877, when failing eyesight compelled his retirement. His valuable services were appreciated by the college, and in recognition of them the title of Librarian Emeritus was conferred upon...
...find the funds to light the building, but to have the time in which the library can be used made shorter than the rules require deserves stronger condemnation. The policy of the library authorities in closing the library at this early hour is to prevent students from abusing their eyesight. Will not this end be accomplished if the reading-room is closed at the regulation time for reading purposes, but the library open until 4.30 for the delivery of books...
...chapel on very dark days, when it is needed. The pulpit alone is lighted, while the poor beings below and above stand in the dim, sacred light of the painted windows and vainly endeavor to make out through the gloom the big letters of the psalm books. Much good eyesight is being uselessly squandered in these rash attempts to follow the service, while the "powers that be" calmly look on at the destruction...
Deterioration of eyesight, especially among students, has been an increasing topic of complaint not only in the United States, but in Europe. Mr. Samuel Yorke has an interesting article on the subject in a recent monthly. He says that in Germany, while the number of short-sighted children in the elementary classes is from five to eleven per cent, among the highest classes of the gymnasia it ranges from thirty-five to eighty-eight per cent and of the sid hundred theological students at Tubingen seventy-nine per cent are affected. The same is the case in England, France...
Another argument can be advanced which seems particularly applicable to the case in hand; namely, the use of the rifle is of great benefit in strengthening the eyesight, and what could be a more beneficial change for a man who has spent an hour over a text-book in crabbed German type, than to spend another hour in the open air striving to plant his bullets in the eight-inch bullseye, 200 yards from where he stands...