We have heard complaints from all sides about the poor gas which is furnished the buildings in the college yard. It is becoming worse and worse, and in some cases we have heard of men who were unable to work in the evening on account of insufficient and unsteady light. The company which supplies the buildings with gas has, we are obliged to admit, a great monopoly and also a very strange way of carrying on its business. Its meters are for the most part worn out and untrustworthy, but nevertheless we are obliged to pay our bills according to the reading of these wretched instruments. No one has said much, however, until now when actual college work is interrupted. There is altogether too little attention paid to matters of this kind and not only in this matter of the gas, but in many others, outsiders are allowed to make all they please out of students.
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