Word: glassed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...most attractive features of the Memorial Dining Hall is the memorial windows, mainly the gift of recently graduated classes. These windows are suffering from sheer neglect; and not only have many of the leads fallen out, but some of the smaller pieces of glass have shaken from their places. A very little care would repair the damage already done, as well as keep the windows in their proper condition for the future. The college can ill afford to allow these windows to fall into decay apparently from indifference. It is unjust both to those whose kind thoughtfulness has given these...
...born and which was torn down a few years ago to make room for the Law School building. The doors and window sashes are the same that were originally put into the house, and in the transom over the door are five lights of old English bull's eye glass...
...Frederic Crowninshield, of New York, has just completed two stained glass windows to be placed in Memorial Hall by the class of 1863, in memory of their classmates who died during the war. The subject is from the sixth book of the Iliad and represents the parting of Hector from Andromache and his son Astyanax. The windows are five feet wide and fifteen feet high, and are of colored glass, no paint being used except in the flesh tones. The artist has been restricted in his use of the darker shades by the necessity of admitting as much light...
...made by lifting the upper one a little by a mechanical arrangement. The powerful current, in overcoming the resistance offered by the air, heats the carbon tips to a white heat. In the incandescent lamp the resistance is offered by a filament of carbon encased in an air-tight glass-bulb. The current required to drive an are light will drive twenty-four 16-candle incandescent lamps...
...with much surprise that we have learned of the ungentlemanly actions of certain freshmen at their first lecture in Physics on Thursday. It appears that these fellows amused themselves by rolling pennies down the aisle, laughing at the instructor when he had occasion to take a glass of water, snapping toothpicks round the room, and laughing, talking, clapping and stamping all through the lecture. Of course we take it for granted that these men have been taught how a gentleman should behave; but perhaps they consider themselves already to have reached man's estate. We assure them that they...