Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...following events will be contested at the Cornell winter athletic games: Standing high jump, running high jump, single vaulting, double vaulting, high kicking, boxing-heavy and light weights, wrestling-heavy and light weights, fencing, slow race-bicycles, fancy riding-bicycles, parallel bars, horizontal bars, rings, Indian clubs, potato race, mile walk, tug-of-war, climbing rope...
...remaining games; the mile walk was won by Murray, the champion, who showed wonderful ability; Phillips won the high kick, 8 feet 8 1-2 inches; N. Ethier took the light-weight sparring, and the Lynn Association team the tug-of-war for 525 lbs. teams. The Law School tug-of-war team, 600 lbs., found no antagonists and so withdrew before the games came off. Besides the regular contests, Myersran an exhibition heat of three laps...
...Electric lights. Yes, electric lights. Many causes have been assigned why the reading room of the library should not be lighted after sunset and among them that most strongly urged is the one of danger by fire. Next to that is the added expense entailed for maintaining this department by such an improvement. The collection of books in the alcoves and on the shelves of Gore Hall is indeed very valuable and it would be a lasting shame to have it destroyed or even to run any risk of destruction. There is no question that gas is slightly dangerous when...
...strange that the recent visit of the apostle of "sweetness and light" should not have brought home to us to a greater degree the need, the crying need of our time and our country,-culture. The influence of Mr. Arnold's writings has probably been stronger at Harvard than the writings of any other living Englishman, and yet at this critical moment of Harvard's history we seem to have forgotten the moral of all his teachings. At no time and in no place has the conflict between Hellenism and Hebraism reached the height it has reached at the present...
...following item is from the Yale News; the italics are our own: D. N. Baxter, '83, Harvard's champion heavyweight sparer, will enter for the amateur championship at New York in February Out-runner Bangs, who won the light-weight wrestling at the winter meetings last year, and also the cup for general wrestling, will try conclusions with the other light-weight wrestlers of the country at the same time...