Word: gas
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: Aroused by an article in the last Advocate, we determined to see Memorial Tower. Thursday we visited it, and shall not soon forget its beauties, nor its coal-gas, either. By the kindness of the "warden of the tower" we were allowed to pass through the forbidden door "into the loft." This abounds in unfinished woodwork and undisturbed dust. Through the middle runs the picturesque ventilator, which might be converted into an elevator for passengers to the tower (two cents a trip). After much climbing we reach the balcony (where the pigeon holes are), and here...
...terrible explosion of gas occurred at the Kohinoor colliery at Shenandoah, Pa., yesterday. Six men were killed and three fatally injured...
...knee-breeches. The latter is the case, and Mrs. De Sorosis was Boston's wet-nurse. She it was who gleaned from St. Beuve's "Portraits de Femmes celibres" the secret of being fascinating without beauty, and determined to make herself a martyr in the cause of antiquated gas-bags and dyspeptic hierophants. And many is the versified heart-throb she is obliged to listen to in her capacity of mother to all the intellectual neophytes whose only excitement is her weekly reception, where they hang upon the lips of Asphyxia and her friends and pay less attention...
...agents of the Cambridge Gas Company were examining the college metres yesterday...
...last number of the Dartmouth contains an article on "Hanover Gas." We do not know whether it refers to the editorials of the Dartmouth or not. We did not read it through...