Word: glared
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...connection with the lecture of Tuesday evening we would also say a word about the arrangements for lighting the reading desk in Sever 11. The gas jets are so arranged as to throw their full glare on the lecturer's face and eyes, so that it is painful to read or speak from the platform. It is very disagreeable, too, for the audience to be compelled to watch the speaker in his struggle with the light. A drop-light could easily be furnished. It would give relief both to the lecturer and to his hearers...
...which the crew rowed in is the new one lately received from Waters of Troy, and is a beauty. The men were the same as were published a few days ago. They wear this year a striped cap with a particularly broad vizor to protect their eyes from the glare of the sun. As the crew shoved off from the float the men on the platform, led by Mr. Sexton, hte treasurer of the boat club last year, gave nine hearty cheers. The eight rowed back and forth the length of the straight stretch of the river in front...
...machine used for lighting this building and the college authorities, whereby the light could be introduced into the college library and perhaps into the yard. It may be urged that its use for lighting the yard would bring the quiet retirement of the latter into the rude glare of publicity. The still air of delightful studies would be tainted with this poison. Perhaps this may be true; yet the irrepressible conflict between the electric light and the midnight oil is not to be avoided even at Harvard. The use of this light in the library certainly is not open...
...Bacon that the rays of the sun are reflected by a white body and absorbed by a black. But, despite these indications of nature and philosophy, we have all our reading matter in direct opposition to the suggestions of optical science. The human eye cannot long sustain the broad glare of a white surface without injury. People exposed for a long time to the glare of a sandy desert or a continuous stretch of snow are usually affected injuriously. The British soldiers in Egypt and Lieutenant Danenhower of the Jeannette expedition may be instanced as cases where the sight...
...plan of turning down the lights in Sever Hall during a lecture, which was tried for the first time in Mr. Channing's lecture, should be carried out at every lecture. The glare from the open gas jets has always been unpleasant...