Word: light
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...rule of Kaut in Germany, Des Cartes in France, Reid in Scotland, etc., as examples of this nationalistic tendency of philosophy. A German philosophy thus should be one that shows the deep thought and idealism of the country; an English philosophy should be matter of fact; a French philosophy light and fantastic, and so through the whole category. The absurdity of any such doctrine then becomes evident. The philosophy that all should seek is the philosophy that applies to all. An American philosophy should only be American, in so far as being American it can still...
...great interest to the public at large, and to Harvard students in particular, lies in the fact that these new machines can be constructed so cheaply as to be no more expensive than gas, so that there is no reason why we should not all have the electric lights in our rooms, if the faculty would only undertake it, just as they now manage steam heat in the buildings. The following figures will, perhaps, explain more fully what I mean. There are about three hundred and twenty rooms in the yard; for each room the occupant burns on an average...
These annual current expenses amount to nine hundred dollars. If, therefore, the college charges for the light furnished the same price that the light now costs the students, namely, nineteen hundred and twenty dollars, or nineteen hundred dollars in round numbers, it will not only receive money enough to pay current expenses, but will have a surplus of one thousand dollars, which is five per cent on the original outlay, which is a very fair return on money invested. Add to these purely business considerations that you would be giving the students a far better quality of light than they...
...electric light is admittedly of better quality per se than gas, so that in the first case the college is working in behalf of the gas companies, and in the second, in behalf of the students. And if, as is probable, the college does-not obtain as much as five per cent. on their investments, there would be an actual profit in the matter...
...moral stamina and cerebral perception is often laboriously tiresome. We trust that our religious editorials will now do a great work. We have every reason to hope this, for at least even Lampy has been led to moralize, weakly, it is true, and as "an infant crying for the light and with no language but a cry." We will add to our "electric" column when we find space, "The Lampoon received; positively the number most worthy of 'club swinging' this year. 'Lampoon' please copy...