Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that society has been willing to accord a true value to mechanical pursuits, and invest them with the humane Interests which they rightfully claim, and so that men follow them as intelligent men and not as the inferior drudges of society, they have been coming up into the broad light of the university and assuming the character and interest which rightly belong to them...
...this inroad of radicalism is much longer permitted we may look next for the appearance of the epidemic even at Harvard. We do not know that ever, of late years at least, a Harvard professor has been guilty of the sin of light literature, or has ever manifested any desire to show a talent that should startle the world ; still it is the unexpected that always happens and we should be on our guard...
...first-class, largely patronized by all the students. It is true that at Yale the college itself bears the larger proportion of the expenses of the room, while at Harvard it would probably be impossible to obtain from the college more than the mere use of a room without light or heat This fact, however, should be small reason to explain the non-existence at Harvard of an institution fully equal in all its conveniences and appointments to that at Yale. If a sufficient number will grant their support there is no doubt but that the directors of the reading...
...within reasonable limits. The only change that I have to suggest beyond these two, is a radical one which, however, I am sure meets with the approval of a large number of men, As at present conducted, the hall offers us a heavy breakfast and dinner with a very light lunch which is of very inferior character. According to this we get nothing whatever in the middle of the day. I, for myself, would prefer a very much different plan and I am sure that I am not alone in my preference. Instead of the hot breakfasts, with two kinds...
...back, it seems indeed to be a source of congratulation to the college that all such performances are banished to the past. Nor has this change taken place here alone. It is going on in nearly every college, and as the tendencies of "hazing" are brought more clearly to light, it must of necessity be put aside with all its childish accompaniments...