Word: keys
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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FOUND in Leavitt and Peirce's-a brass key...
...columns that the college authorities provide light evenings in the entry of University where the Reference Library is. Such an innovation is greatly needed by the patrons of the library who now spend their time blindly groping for the protection of the kindly wall and aimlessly hunting for the key-hole of the mysterious Yale lock, while the readers within are torn with sympathy for the wanderers. So let us have a gas jet by all means...
...number of stairs, grope slowly along the corridor, learning where to turn by putting his hand on the friendly wall; and after he has rounded the corner and made the door of his room he must again resort to his sense of feeling in order to find the key-hole. It seems absurd that so childish a regulation as this should exist. The college would be doing the students a great kindness if it would allow some lights to be left burining after twelve. We do not ask a brilliant illumination, but only a dim light sufficient to guide...
Last, year the "T Company" erected a rather odd but very pretty little hall on the corner of College and Wall streets, opposite the "Scroll and Key," and now the "Stone Trust Company, " or "Sigma Delta Chi," better known as the "Book and Snake," a sister society of the "T Company," in the Sheffield scientific school, is about to erect a cloister, which, in all respects, will fill the modern idea of a club house...
...spring election to membership in the Scroll and Key and the Skull and Bones, the two leading secret societies at Yale took place this week. Two-thirds of the members were from the East, while the rest were divided between the West and South...