Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...lively game of foot ball was played in Hoboken, Tuesday, between Stevens Institute, and a team composed of graduates of Yale, Princeton, and Harvard. The score was 15 to 4 in favor of Stevens. The game ended with a free light, according to one of our exchanges...
...ordeal. Nothing compares with it, except perhaps a visit to the dentist. It has become recognized, however, as an established custom for every class to have their pictures taken, and to this end a photographic committee is selected whose duties, even when ably seconded by the class, are no light burden. Now we ask you, members of '85, is it right or fair to the committee which you have elected, to sit quietly in your rooms and calmly read their notices and then proceed to calmly ignore them? Your pictures must be taken or an old established custom will...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSOND:-The old question is coming up again. Yes! It is the one about lighting the library. In all seriousness, why must the library be closed every day at sundown? The only danger of fire attending any attempt to light it can now be avoided by the use of the new illuminator, electricity. The expense of introducing this would, to be sure, be large; but the need for the improvement is certainly great enough to justify the college in an effort to raise the necessary means...
Tufts College has been without gas ever since it was founded. The students are now delighted by the fact that the Cambridge Gas Light company is rapidly laying pipes up to the hill, and that they will undoubtedly all be laid before cold weather arrives...
...connection with the game on Saturday it is timely to say a few words with regard to the police. Never was there greater inefficiency displayed by any body of men detailed and exhorbitantly paid for light duty. All that was required of them was to keep the grounds ciear of non-paying spectators and to see that the audience did not encroach upon the limits of the playing field. What did they do ? Several of them stood aimlessly about at one side of the field and allowed the crowd to jump over the ropes and towards the last...