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...University is considering the advisability of installing a system of telephones between the different departments, with a central office at University Hall, to be connected with the Cambridge central office and at least six other trunk line in Boston. A telephone will be put in the new lodge on Massachusetts avenue. The New England Telephone Company will probably be given permission to install long distance telephones in some of the College dormitories this spring. The usual charge will be made for the use of them...
...situation that it secured considerable discriminations from the railroads which touched at Cleveland. During the same period, it organized a system of pipe-lines which, with several smaller systems, secured special discriminations from the railroads in 1874. In 1875, when rate wars made uncertain all the traffic upon the trunk lines and broke up the agreement among the pipe-lines, the Standard Oil Company with its pipe-lines was able to exact still greater favors from the railroads entering Cleveland, and by its superior capital, was able to absorb its weaker rivals. . . . Nothing in subsequent years has been able...
...mechanism is, in its simplest aspect a pair of levers connected with four adjustable rods, with a sliding seat and foot rest; these in turn, are connected by a power applying rod to a crank or sprocket wheel. By this arrangement any movement of the arms, legs, or trunk, is converted into a mechanical advantage contributing to the revolution of the gear wheels...
COLLEGE NINE.- Be on Soldiers Field at 3.30. Wear old suits as the trunk may not return from West Point in time for the game...
...ferns have been gathered into one room. An Australian fern with a trunk four feet thick and a silver leaved fern ten feet high, are the most interesting of these plants. Among the cacti is an excellent specimen of a giant cactus, which was obtained last fall...