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...groaning of a homebound orange street car was subdued by the nearer steady trickle of the penetrating downpour. From the obscurity on the right rose the indistinct shape of an old haunt of the Vagabond's, now glistening white, grey, and silver in the flickering glimmer of a neighborly lamp post...
Hollis 15 and the two companion rooms in the same hall are now given over to Freshmen, renovated for the first time in many years, electricity installed, and the lamp smoke of twenty years removed from the ceiling. It is the passing from the Yard of one of Harvard's few "living traditions...
...years there "Copey" would let no electricity be installed. Nor would he permit the ceiling to be repainted; candle and lamp smoke had given it such a fine patina. In later years "Copey" found it difficult to get the right sort of lamp chimneys, but he never gave in, and it was always by lamplight that he said, punctually at 11 p. m.: "Good night, good night, please come again...
...University of Edinburgh, presiding. Sir Alfred at 77 is one of Britain's great engineers. He attended his first British Association meeting when he was 12, wearing kilts. His recollection covers many "surprises that are common-places today: the dynamo, electric motor, transformer, rectifier, storage battery, incandescent lamp,* phonograph, telephone, internal combustion engine, aircraft, steam turbine, . . . wireless telegraphy, thermionic valve as receiver, as amplifier, as generator of electric waves . . . for broadcasting...
...Lamp, Standard Oil (New Jersey) house organ, urged all industries to spread available work among as many men as possible by shortening hours, stating that Standard Oil without loss of efficiency had thus retained 2,900 employes, 9% of the total force. Standard of New Jersey's President Walter Teagle took the chair of a Hoover sub-committee to push the job-sharing plan throughout U. S. industry...