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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor John Trowbridge, director of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory, has recently completed an entirely new apparatus for taking X ray photographs. He has prepared the largest storage battery in the world, which consists of 10,000 cells, with a voltage of 20,000, which can be raised to 600,000 by means of an accumulator. This battery will give a flaming discharge in air, three feet in length...
...totals vary so largely, the only thing here to be noted is that European languages bulk largest at Harvard, classics at Yale, and natural sciences at Cornell. The following table gives the best basis for comparison...
Last evening the Junior class held a meeting in Lower Massachusetts to make arrangements for a class dinner. This meeting, in point of attendance, was the largest that '98 has had since the election of class officers its Freshman year...
...Edward Everett Hale preached in Appleton Chapel last evening. All the seats were filled and many people stood, the congregation being the largest of the year...
...musical gems than an opera, dressier than a society play, funnier than a farce, spicier than the varieties, more unique than a specialty show, as rich in grace and beauty as a fancy dress ball, and as replete with good acting as the legitimate. The cast is the largest and strongest Mr. Hoyt has ever organized and embraces many prominent people, notably, Miss Belle Archer, leading lady with Nat Goodwin, E. H. Southern and the late Salvini; Clairiesse Agnew, who created such a sensation during the New York run; Chas. Stanley, for whom the part of Napoleon was especially written...