Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...wants, new interests. An elastic constitution meets revolution half way. But when the people live under a constitution contained in an organic written law, the slightest change will produce a visible strain, because every wheel, every bolt, and every connection of a highly elaborate mechanism is in clear light before their eyes...
Perfectly ignorant of practical astronomy, he insisted on the aperture of his telescope being at least forty inches, which would admit twice as much light as the great Washington telescope, which, at that time, had just been completed. To build a telescope of such dimensions was a tremendous undertaking. Agents travelled through Europe visiting the most noted firms in England, France and Germany, without finding one which was willing to undertake the contract of making the glass disks from which the objectives must be made. At last, in 1880, a contract was made with Feil of Paris, for an objective...
...paper in German III. yesterday was very long. especially since everything had to be written in German.At Williams the cry is for light in the gymnasium in the evening, instead of for light in the library, as is the case here...
FIRST WINTER M ETING, SATURDAY, MARCH 14TH.Heavy weight sparring, middle weight sparring, heavy weight wrestling, light weight wrestling, feather weight wrestling, parallel bars, putting the shot...
SECOND WINTER MEETING. SATURDAY, MARCH 21ST. LADIES' DAY.Two-hand fence vault, light weight sparring, feather weight sparring, club swinging (legitimate), fencing, running broad jump...