Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There will be a recitation on Iron in Chemistry 1 this week...
...often that we have any criticism to make on the excellent arrangement of the apparatus in the gymnasium, but we would call the attention of the powers that rule to the condition of the handles of the new chest-weights. A small iron pin passes through the wooden handles, and, as the pin is not securely fastened, the handle frequently flies off, greatly to the surprise of the man exercising and to the detriment of the apparatus. It is very difficult to replace the pin, and consequently several pieces of apparatus are chronically out of order. We hope the needful...
...about $2,000,000. A subterannean conduit runs from the build to Fresh Pond, through which the water flows and fills three deep stone wells in the cellar of the building. By means of a powerful engine the water is forced up one of these wells into a large iron pipe. Through this pipe the water is conducted to the reservoir on reservoir hill, about half a mile away...
...faculty has got in the evolution from the primitive seats of our "arboreal ancestors." They are, for the most part, cheap wooden chairs, constructed with an entire disregard of the curves and angles of the human frame, and placed behind a sort of toad-stool formed of an iron upright and a small square of black walnut. This toad-stool desk gives no opportunity for comfort in writing, as it is not large enough to support the elbow and note-book at the same time, and an ordinarily bad chirography is thrown into a chaotic state thereby...
Miss Florence Kelly, '82, daughter of "Pig Iron" Kelly, of Pa., well remembered as one of the brightest and most strong-minded women who ever attended Cornell, and whose marriage (as reported) to a distinguished Russian Nihilist was announced some months ago is well remembered at Zurich, Switzerland, where she was one of a little band of students who there sought the higher degrees which they were not allowed to take in other German Universities. While at Zurich, Miss Kelly was prominent in a woman's rights movement which resulted in sending a petition to Congress, though...