Word: air
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...buildings in the Yard during the past summer, the most important of which has been the installment of better systems of ventilation. In Appleton Chapel this has been accomplished by placing two large fans in the basement, one of which is used to introduce a supply of fresh air through six large inlets in different parts of the building, and the other to draw off the bad air through registers placed under all the pews. The fans in the Chapel have been in operation on two Sunday evenings this year and have proved very satisfactory. The Gore Hall Library...
...explanatory maps to Wm. Morris's Tales. The explanations are familiar to most of us, but it must not be forgotten that the page is intended for Freshmen. "Some of our advocates for good roads" would be better placed in any other paper than the Lampoon where a collegiate air is perhaps essential. The pictures of the Yard on the nights of the Sophomore-Freshman rushes are executed with skill, especially the first one, and the small drawings could well be increased in number as they contain much merit...
Last evening's services provided the opportunity for the public to see the improvements made in the interior finish and decorations of the Chapel during the summer. Electric lights have been put in and a new ventilating system keeps the building filled with fresh air. The walls and ceiling have been re-painted and the organ -- formerly worked by hand power--now has an electric bellows. The cost of these improvements was about...
...Air. Solo Violin, Mr. I. Schnitzler, Bach. b. Gavotte, Bach...
...been found by experiment with this apparatus that air submitted to an electrical pressure of over two million volts becomes a fairly good conductor. In order to insulate the apparatus, it is placed three feet above the floor, and even in this position, luminous discharges from the apparatus to the floor and the room is darkened...