Word: halogens
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...more "fingering" Harvard professors and friends to see when they had last logged on and when they might receive the mail I was about to send. No more "rwhoing" to discover who was burning the midnight halogen lamp online. And, most difficult to accept, no more access to HOLLIS to check a favorite author's oeuvre or to see how many journals Widener Library carries on horticulture. If I wanted library catalogs, I was stuck with local haunts, and they just didn't compare...
...memory? Sometimes I feel that the true Harvard only comes alive at night. The tourists are gone, the air is hushed, and the lights from the first-year dorms shine in the night--from the middle of the Yard, the lights could even be glistening candles, not halogen lamps. This is the image of Harvard that brought me here: a Harvard of un-bricked fireplaces, dusty books buried in Widener and Houghton Libraries and benches dedicated to alumnae in Radcliffe Yard. It is the image of Harvard that I glimpsed at wondrous moments during my first year here, one that...
Loaded with books, sofas and halogen lamps from bargain hunting at senior sales...
...well aware that halogen lamps have caused fires and deaths in the past. According to a Consumer Product Safety Commission report, halogens caused 100 fires and 10 deaths last year in America. But we need to see, and we will continue to use halogens regardless of the University's policies if there is not an equivalent to the lamps proposed...
...fact is, halogen lamps are not a new invention. They have been in common use for over 10 years and have caused relatively little harm until now. All of sudden, it seems halogens have become a detriment to our community when, in fact, people have used them successfully and safely for years. Only light will come from these old friends if we treat them right...