Word: gas
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...subject for the Conference Committee to take under their consideration, when the numerous weighty questions of college discipline and policy have been discussed and settled, is, if they will pardon the suggestion, the relative merits of naptha and gas as illuminating fluids. We do not favor lighting the yard much more than it is at present, but it seems as though the quality of the light obtained from a number of gas lamps equal to the present number of naptha "dips," would be enough better to make up for the additional expense. Further more, the odors coming from the naptha...
...laboratories in Boylston was used almost every night during the recess. The midnight gas was burned until after 2.30 o'clock on Monday morning of last week...
...University possesses a fine library of about 130,000 volumes, which number is steadily increasing. A large reading-room is open all day to the students, in the main building, and as the building is new and fire-proof there is no hesitation whatever in lighting the gas on winter afternoons. There is also a very good Natural History Museum belonging to the university, and a collection of valuable relics of antiquity belonging to the Government...
...unusually dismal at the sanctum. The wind scurried about, shaking the doors, rattling the windows, and fluttering the files of exchanges. The Board had the blues. Once the Poet (Fact and Rumor Man) as he glanced up at the two-forked flame which sputtered despairingly from the single gas burner, allowed his melancholy spirit to express itself. "Our only light comes from a cloven hoof," he said, grimly...
...Gas...