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...electric light. For some months past the authorities have been investigating the feasibility of such a plan and have now determined upon adopting it. The one great difficulty in their way was the absence of any available funds for putting light of any kind into the library. But Harvard never lacks friends in need, and a number of gentlemen were found who were willing to contribute for so worthy a purpose. It is but two or three weeks ago that the fund which amounts to $2000 was assured. It was collected in sums varying very much in size...
Wonderful treasures of art were distributed in these magnificent halls and the world perhaps has never seen such quantities of them in one group of buildings...
...will of Lewis Morris, executed Nov. 19, 1760, I found in it the following clause: "It is my desire that my son Gouveneur Morris may have the best education that is to be had in England or America, but my express will and directions are that he be never sent for that purpose to the colony of Connecticut least he should imbibe in his youth that low craft and cunning so incident to the people of that country, which is so interwoven in their constitutions that all their art cannot disguise it from the World, tho' many of them under...
...forfeit their right to cups if they win by laying a scent unsatisfactorily to three-quarters of the hounds. Whether it is because of this rule or not, the hares have since laid much better scent. In fact the scent was so good that one man complained that he never had a chance to rest. The experiment of having an extra hunt on Friday was successfully tried. No prizes were offered to the winner in this hunt, and it was intended to be a pleasant afternoon's run across country. It is to be hoped that next fall...
...year. Nor should anyone be selected as referee who has ever been connected with one of the competing colleges. Again, the time of beginning the games should be fixed, and no contest be allowed to begin after a stated time before sunset. The game in and around Boston was never more popular than now, nor was there ever more interest taken, and the result will be a fine crop of new players. Accidents have been but few, and the spirit of the game has been such as might well be emulated by stronger elevens. Next season New England will have...