Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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English VI. Oral discussion. Opened by Messrs. Robinson and Smith. The Legal Tender Decision in the Light of Mr. George Bancroft's recent Pamphlet. Sever...
Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, has presented Cornell University with a complete electric light plant...
...pall-bearers, who were effectively, though perhaps somewhat inappropriately dressed in costumes of red flannel with tails attached. The procession marched from its rendezvous at some point in the city out to the college grounds to the solemn strains of the dead march. Torches were carried, red light, and other fire-works displayed. Arrived at the campus, the coffin was placed upon a tall funeral pile which had been prepared, the match applied, and while the flames were consuming the pyre, a funeral oration was pronounced over the dead. A bright man was always chosen for funeral orator...
...bout between G. M. Ashe, H., '87, and J. W. Downey was fairly interesting, and was given to the former. W. H. Paine, L. S., and W. Austin, H., '87, fought the next bout, light weight. Paine got groggy early in the bout, and Austin got winded. The third round saw each man falling blindly into the arms of the other, or slashing about with the gloves. A fourth round had to be fought to decide this, and Austin, rallying slightly, was given the bout...
...final bout of the light-weights showed Ashe up to good advantage. He is an exceptionally good boxer, and hits a telling blow. He won this bout from F. G. Curtis. The last round of the middle weights between J. W. Appleton, H., '88, and Roche was exciting and scientifically contested, Appleton doing some excellent work. The bout, however, was given to Roche...