Word: glasse
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...senior class at Rutgers will present the college chapel with a stained glass window...
...that we cannot know him perfectly. We must realize that reflected rays are often more useful than the direct. Where the direct light would dazzle or confuse, we may often learn much from the reflection. Thus an astronomer never looks on the sun directly, but through a darkened glass and thus finds out far more than he could from attempting to look at the sun with naked...
...last invoice of glass models of flowers was received in the late summer, but the arrangement in cases was not completed till very recently. On entering the right hand door of the Museum specimens illustrating the crowfoot family are met with on the right. Just beyond are the magnolias, poppies, and pitcher plants. Then on retracing one's steps after facing the other way, coming down the same aisle one meets plants of the orders next in succession. So that if one pursues a zigzag course, keeping the specimens on the right hand all the time, all orders of flowering...
...will be seen, arranged for the most part in definite order. The more important of these are the full illustrations of the chocolate plant, nutmeg, cloves, cotton, flax and tobacco. These occupy separate compartments in the newly constructed cases, and all are now specifically labelled. The next invoice of glass flowers is already on its way, and the specimens will probably be ready for exhibition by the middle of April...
...chief needs seem to be the purchase of a glass case or some other suitable protection for the flags, and the purchase of the missing pictures. It has been suggested either that a rule be passed by the athletic committee, requiring all 'varsity managers to place in the gymnasium pictures and records of their teams, or that a certain sum be appropriated each year and that the matter be left to the graduate treasurer...