Word: hands
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Coming now to the method of taking photographs, the lecturer showed the difference in the process. In taking a photograph with cathode rays a plain dry plate is used. There are the customary slides in the holder but there is no central opaque partition. The hand or object to be photographed is put on the slide and you get a photograph of the shade. As glass absorbs the rays a lens would be of no use and would prevent the taking of a photograph. Thus the common process of photographing is exactly reversed with the cathode rays. This was illustrated...
...thick as a piece of paper absorbs a large number of rays and throws a very thick shadow on the plate while even a thick piece of wood throws hardly any shadow. The shadow photograph, however, is very exact in other respects. In the photograph of the human hand it shows the gradations of the absorption of the rays with the thickness of the bones...
Twenty-six men were present at the meeting of candidates for the CRIMSON last night. There were not so many freshmen as were expected. All men who were unable to be present last night may hand in their names and begin trying at any time. It is hoped that more ninety-nine men especially will become candidates...
...annual report of the Princeton Football Association was given out Saturday by H. G. Duffield, the general treasurer. The receipts from all sources were $26,579.81, and the expenses, $19,785.64, indicating a balance on hand of $6,794.17. This is the most satisfactory report in years...
...they achieve the notoriety which is the chief delight of the offenders and unnecessarily injure the good name of the University. But there is a limit in this as in all things. There are some acts of such a nature that the college community suffers, on on the other hand, if it does not openly condemn and disavow them. Such an act was that to which Dean Briggs's letter refers this morning, in terms which we believe will be a much more severe rebuke to the one who is guilty of the dishonorable deed than any words of censure...