Word: lantern
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Glaciers and their Action." He has kindly consented to give a lecture this evening before members of the University on the subject of "Recent Discoveries in Glacial Geology," using for illustration a selection from his views of glaciers, thrown on the scene in Boylston by Professor Cooke's powerful lantern...
Prof. Lanciani, in his lecturing tour in this country, has suffered some $100 loss from the breaking of lantern slides and the like, caused by frequent packings and unpackings and the havoc of traveling...
...long be remembered by all who heard it. A farmer on one of the northern railroad lines witnessed a land-slide across the railroad track shortly before the time of an express train. It was in the evening. The man could not reach a telegraph station, and lighting a lantern, he started up the track to stop the train. But he fell, as he heard the train approaching, and broke his lantern, extinguishing the light. With no match his only resource was to stand by the track and as the train thundered past, cast the broken lantern into the locomotive...
Much more freedom than now was allowed in the rooms of the students and in this way part compensation was made for the restrictions in the yard. The entries were lighted by private subscription, a few men clubbing together occasionally and buying a lantern or two. These would last but a short time, as some belated carouser usually found a happy finale for his "bat" in smashing them. Then the entries would remain in Egyptian darkners until the next subscription had been made and new lanterns hung...
...lantern slide exhibition of the Photographic Society comes off tonight in Sever...