Word: lamps
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Students should call at L. D. Drury's store at once, and examine the model students' lamp now on exhibition for a few days...
...better method of ventilating the chemical laboratory be found than the one now in use? The air is so vitiated with the numerous smells peculiar to a laboratory that it is almost impossible to breathe in the room. If any one raises a window he always interferes with the lamp of the man next to the window. It seems as if some way could be found by which this terrible nuisance could be abated to a great extent. As it is, seventy-five men have to suffer for fear one man's lamp will be blown...
...explosion of a student's lamp occurred in a sophomore's room, at 10 Oxford street, on Tuesday night. For a few minutes it looked as if dangerous results might ensue, but the fire was soon extinguished by the prompt action of the owner...
This last offence promises to be a very serious one. The cost of replacing the lamps, if they are replaced, will be at the rate of $16 per lamp, amounting in the aggregate to $272. It is said that the citizens of Princeton are naturally unwilling to bear this expense, and that every effort will be made to bring the offending parties to justice. It is generally very hard to detect students, and, in case these escape, it is a question whether the college will pay for the lamps; it seems to me that it would be eminently short-sighted...
...easy-chair. That she was far from comfortable, bodily or mentally, was evident from her nervous glances about the room, in particular at the face of a slow and respectable old-fashioned tall clock in the corner. The room was plainly, indeed barely, furnished. A single kerosene lamp burned dimly on the table...