For First Time In Twenty Years

The Campus clock must be repaired this week. which is the first time for twenty years.

"I must stop my clock.' said Mr. Lutz,"and it has been running since '83, and never been stopped once during that time.. A little shoe that the cam runs over has worn down about the thirty-secondth oí an inch. and the quarter hours strike wrong."

The Clock was made by E. Howard and Son of Boston, who have gone out of the manufacturing of clocks. So a little steel shoe will be forged by Ralph Miller and Ernest Lutz will adjust it.

This library clock is a most interesting piece of mechanism. The works themselves are twelve feet long and six feet high, and it well repays the climbing of dusty, crooked stairs to see the wheels go round and realize this machine is the "works" of a clock.

It requires two men to wind it and they turn an evil looking crank once a week, for three-quarters of an hour, with no time between for breathing spells.

It is run by weights: one of 1800 pounds, one 1600, two of 800 and 000 respectively. These have been pulled np by hand from a distance of fifty feet, once a week for twenty years. When one of the weights carne down and dropped four feet it knocked the piaster from off the ceiling above the art gallery. The pendulum of the clock is twenty feet long and is regulated by a set screw on top. The official time is gotten daily from the observatory and the greatest variance in twenty years has been half a minute. Usually the time varies between five and six seconds a day, which is due to the vibrations of the tower from the action of the pendulum.

If one is fortúnate enough to be inside the works' when the clock strikes, he will be cooled off by the revolving of the balance which ls as with an electric fan, and be surprised at the faintness of the sound, as compared with the bell when heard some distance away.