Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 285, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1916 — FOILS SUN WITH INVENTION [ARTICLE]

FOILS SUN WITH INVENTION

Harvard Man Presses Button In Bad and tha Window Shade Goea Down. Cambridge. Mass.—Every morning at seven o’clock Henry R. Guild of Boston, a Harvard senior, rolls over in bed. Seven o’clock Is too early for a senior to get up. so Mr. Guild presses a button and the shade at the distant end of hl» chamber rolls down as If by magic. No rising sun is going to make him leave his bed unreasonably. Some morning he may miss a four-alarm fire by pressing the button, hut he’s willing to take the chance, he asserts. Getting up ut 7 a. tn. is a high crime at Harvard, the same as admitting Yale has a good football team this year. Henry Guild framed up a motor, attached lt to the curtain string and laid wires to his bedside. When the sun throws It roys Into his bedroom every morning, weather permitting, he presses u button and the curtain flops faster than in a vaudeville theater. Mr. Guild’s next Invention probably will he jl trapdoor to-throw tltcsome professors Into the cellar by means of a button that any student can press. Life’s attendant inconveniences aren’t going to bother him while electricity can do the work. The Harvard vocabulary this year is the wonder of the ages. Nothing Is “wonderful” to a Harvard student when he Is talking In midseason form. It’s either “absolutely wonderful” or nothing at all — unless It’s “absolutely commonplace,” of course. But lt has to be “absolutely” something. Today may be fine to the rest of the world, but It’s a onesided bet, with no takers, that out on Harvard square it’s “perfectly fine.” And it may be great for the usual run of sport followers If Harvard defeats Yale In football tills year, but for Harvard students themselves, it will be “simply great.”