Word: light
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...team from the Blues of the Second Regiment, C. N. G, will pull against a light-weight team from Yale this evening at 8 o'clock in the college gymnasium. The team from Yale will be Casement, Crall, Lowe, Loveland (anchor...
...important discovery was also made by Mr. C. D. Buck, who had charge of another expedition. In the excavations at Icaria, a theatre has been brought to light which is thought to prove that Icaria was the birthplace of the drama. According to the old Greek legends, this place was the seat of the drama, but no proof could be found to confirm this supposition. The success of Mr. Buck reflects great credit upon himself and the American School as being the first to settle the location beyond a doubt. The New York Nation gives a very accurate description...
...light-weight sparring was the next event on the programme. The only entries were J. W. Lawrence, '91, and H. S. Phillips, Gr. Phillips opened the first round on the offensive, going at his man with the evident intention of annihilating him. Lawrence stood the punishment well and returned enough blows to make the honors about even at the end of the first round. Both men fought carefully during the second round. Phillips got in some hard blows, and Lawrence seemed pretty well used up when time was called. The third round opened much the same as the second, Phillips...
...Light has energy; is, in fact, a form of energy. After Sir Isaac Newton's discovery the subject was not touched for some time. When it was taken up again the spectroscope was invented...
...have means of ascertaining the waves of energy coming from a nail which is but slightly heated. The two carbons of an electric light were then projected on screen and the light coming from the incandescent carbons shown...