Word: halogen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...halogen-filled environment, I fear for first-year eyes. Since halogens were banned from the Yard this year, the steps down the path to squinting adulthood have been brought to historic Harvard standards. This class of first-years has something new in common with the former residents of their rooms, with John Quincy Adams, Class of 1787, and Horatio Alger, Class of 1852: they too can experience the Yard dorms as if by candlelight, huddled over their books in the corners of dark, gaping rooms...
...write now because I have a new problem to share: the Second Sun is failing. The Second Sun system has been Lowell J-52's secret plan to light its room: turn on the overhead light and the two desk lights in the common room, bring both torchiere halogen lamps out of the bedrooms, and place the halogens in front of the doors. For the piece de resistance, we close the doors to reflect the light and voila!--there is almost enough light to make reading bearable. Months of experimental positioning ended in this perfect arrangement, and one needed merely...
...room could accommodate a large couch. I covered its garish pattern with a large blanket. I got a coffee table and hid a contraband DeLonghi toaster-oven in it. I never used the oven; it just made me feel subversive. I also had an oriental rug and make-shift halogen spot lights which I turned on and off with a remote control. Sometimes the seniors would steal the clicker and conduct a light show for me from outside my door while I tried to do homework...
...first-year dorms, halogen lamps are also on the contraband list...
...Certainly, if there were a problem caused by a halogen, that might result in disciplinary action that might be more severe than before," says Lindemann