Word: sunsets
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...will not attempt to enlarge on the needs for a change in the present regulation of closing the library at sunset. Most of the students have experienced the same inconveniences as myself. If some expression of the opinion of the whole college upon this subject could be made, the faculty might be induced to consider the matter favorable...
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...
...Pierson, '85, won the first prize in a tennis tournament, singles, at Sunset Hill House, Sugar Hill, N. H., this summer, he and his partner also winning the doubles open to all comers. In a tournament open to guests of the house, the first prizes in the doubles were won by Mr. Williams, '85, and his partner...
...soon as spring opens the Boston park commissioners will put the Arnold Arboretum in condition to be used by the public, and it will be open from 7 A. M. until sunset. The cost of streets and avenues, which the city of Boston is bound to provide under the indenture made with Harvard College, is about $70,000, and the city is also required to furnish a sufficient force of police to guard it. The rules and regulations governing the Arboretum are to be made jointly by the park commissioners and the corporation of Harvard College...
...privy council of Dublin yesterday Earl Spencer, lord lieutenant, presided in person. It was resolved to proclaim the city under the operation of the curfew section of the repression act, which authorizes the police to arrest all suspicious persons found on the streets between an hour after sunset and an hour before sunrise...