Word: calcium
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...views comprised about sixty places of interest, and were thrown on the white wall by the calcium light. Starting in Italy, the first picture was the Bay of Naples; then followed in quick succession the fish market at Naples, the Carthusian monastery, Virgil's tomb, Vesuvius, showing the present Crater, several views of Pompell and many more. Next, passing over to Sicily, photographs of Mount Etna, the old quarries at Syracuse, a beautiful Greek temple at Argumentum, and the bay of Falermo were shown...
Some sixty views were then thrown in rapid succession by the calcium light on to the white wall, and Professor Cooke, in his entertaining way, commented on each as it passed. All the pictures were interesting, and many of them beautiful. Among them may be mentioned several fine views of the Coliseum, showing its construction and the recent excavations, the Aqueducts, the Arch of Constantions, the Aqueducts, the Arch of Constantine, a view from the Capital looking back over the Forum, the Via Sacra, several views of the Tiber, and, last of all, St. Peter's, showing the dome...
...during the eclipse is for the purpose of determining whether it is probable that some of the demands which are classified here as simple, are not really compound, and are separated in the intense heat of the sun. It has been suggested that iron may be a compound of calcium and oxygen, and that these elements may be separated in the sun. So this apparatus will take the light of the very edge of the sun just as the eclipse becomes total, then of the bottom part of the corona, and then of the outer part. If it is found...
...students about the campus, cheering all of the college buildings and singing "Omega Lambda Chi." Tuesday night the Junior society elections were given out in the customary manner. The Psi Upsilon and D. K. E. men enter the campus simultaneously from the north and south ends respectively, headed by calcium lights and singing their society songs. The members-elect of the Sophomore class are assembled in several rooms, and the juniors rush in and shake hands with them, at the same time taking abundantly of the cigars which are set forth for them. The Senior society elections on Thursday afternoon...
...panic occurred in the Grand Opera House at Milwaukee last evening caused by the fall of a calcium light machine. Several persons on the stage were injured, but the audience escaped without harm...