Word: lanterns
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...should like to suggest the use of the stereopticon for producing maps of the desired size. If it is possible to obtain or construct a proper screen the rest of the undertaking ought to be easy. The desired maps can be easily photographed. The negatives thus formed make the lantern slides. A lantern, or more than one, is in the possession of the college, and there are men here who know how to use it. To use this would be much easier work than drawing two large maps by hand. By means of photography any number of maps desired...
Notwithstanding we have several lantern-jawed seniors, no member of '83, in having his pictures made, has emulated the example of 82's most striking case of attentuatedness. When this physically thin individual sat for negatives, he stuffed his cheeks with cotton, in order to give himself a fictitious appearance of a homo vivus and to remove the suspicion that his photograph was the picture of a skeleton clad in senior clothes...
Professor White will use the lantern today at 12 o'clock, in illustrating the last three lectures of Greek...
...party adjourned to Boylston where they examined the mineralogical cabinet, and at 4 assembled in 9 Boylston, where a paper on the "Relative Strength of American Woods" was read by Prof. Sharples, and an experiment was performed by Prof. J. P. Cooke with the aid of magic lantern and electric light, showing the critical point of carbonic acid...
What made the lantern go out? Nothing, only Jim Armstrong passed by and flopped his ears...