Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...popular lecturer has been engaged to address the students on a theme of absorbing interest, was shamefully demonstrated Tuesday evening. Hundreds who went there, tormented, perhaps, by doubts and difficulties in the attempt to solve the great problem of what their life-work should be, thirsting for the light with which the lecturer's words flooded the subject and which would have aided them in the task of solution, were unable to gain admittance...
...propriety of making the students get up early; the utility of a daily roll-call; or even the satisfaction of seeing the students gathered all in one room. The function of chapel is no longer devotional; neither the college authorities nor the students look at it in that light. There is no feeling in the community that makes public prayer an indispensable form of beginning work; there is no feeling in the students that it is a religious act to attend prayers. Such attendance is a matter of discipline, not of worship; it is a thing people are afraid...
...connection with the lecture of Tuesday evening we would also say a word about the arrangements for lighting the reading desk in Sever 11. The gas jets are so arranged as to throw their full glare on the lecturer's face and eyes, so that it is painful to read or speak from the platform. It is very disagreeable, too, for the audience to be compelled to watch the speaker in his struggle with the light. A drop-light could easily be furnished. It would give relief both to the lecturer and to his hearers...
...time of the civil war a clever man was an object of suspicion. For a considerable part of the cleverness with which Boston is afflicted, Harvard College must be held responsible. During the last ten years she has graduated a number of gilded literary youths with hearts so light and consciences so easy (we would not say callous) that, where-as they might have been intellectual, they have been content to be merely clever. It must be acknowledged that in this Puritan part of the world they have given us a new, if not an original point of view; they...
Owing to some cause beyond the power of the management the light was very poor at Memorial last night...