Word: glassed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...FRESHMAN GLASS OF HARVARD: - The undergraduate freshman class of Yale hereby challenge the undergraduate freshman class of Harvard to a two-mile straight-away, eight-oared shell race, to occur at a time and place to be hereafter agreed upon...
...period of a few weeks. The main duty of the president consists in keeping order at the festive board and in calling for a "salamander." This mysterious ceremony is repeated several times of an evening. The president who sits at the head of the table arises, orders the glasses to be refilled, then he invites all present to follow him in emptying their glasses in one draught. This fact is accomplished in a surprisingly short time, and then the emptied glasses are rubbed around on the table while some formula, the club's watchword is uttered over them. But this...
...such exceptions, is it true that the spirit of Harvard fosters a loose morality and tends to elevate the evil above the good? It is true that our "social gatherings" are better attended than our prayer meetings, that societies offer more attractions than the chapel, that the Harvard spy-glass is not unknown in Boston theatres at certain seasons of the year, and that the writings of certain authors are a little more closely thumbed than the books of Miss Austin. But where is the harm in all this? "Boys will be boys, of course." The question then resolves itself...
...grinding and the polishing are done as follows: In the first place the curves of the lens are determined by experiments with smaller models, aided, of course, by the maker's long experience. Then an iron disk, large enough to-cover the glass, is made into a concave shape exactly corresponding to the desired convexity of the lens, thus, in reality forming a species of mould. This disk, which by the way is called the "tool," is placed on the glass, and by a simple mechanical device is made to rotate upon it. When the grinding is completed...
When the two glasses are finally set in the brass mountings and the lens is complete, the diameter of clear glass inside the fittings will be three feet, the lens having a focal distance of 57 feet! This means that the cylinder of the telescope itself will be at least 57 feet in length, a monstrous "spy glass" indeed...