Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...society as the Hockey Club has an existence among us. Can it be that the approach of the midyears causes the enthusiasm of the officers to ooze away before the greater enthusiasm which a blue book can provoke? Can it be that this youthful club, hardly accustomed to the light of day, has already proved so demoralizing to our characters and dangerous to our safety that it has been suppressed? If, however, these suppositions are all incorrect, what then has become of the Hockey Club? The opportunities which it has of usefulness are fast slipping away. Will they all slip...
From a paper on physical training, in a recent medical journal, we clip the following words, which may serve to place in a stronger light the advantages which we enjoy for gymnasium exercise...
...inquiring student was surprised on counting to find that the number of gas jets used to light Memorial Hall every evening...
Some time ago we announced our intention of publishing a number of letters from ex-captains of the University crew on the recent action of the athletic committee in regard to boating. Since then facts have come to light which have induced us too change our determination and to withhold the publication of the letters, at least for the present. Careful consideration of the question in hand, together with a better acquaintance with both sides of the case, has convinced us that the publication of those letters will not be for the best interests of the college. We still maintain...
...compelled to resign in June, 1864, and it was then that he resumed his old place in the Scientific School. Here for the past twenty years his labors have been unceasing. His great knowledge did not, as with some, hinder him as a teacher, He was considered a shining light in the latter capacity, and among his pupils were men who have become celebrated His labors did not cease, even after his illness began to incapacitate him for work, for at the last, rather than give up his classes, he had them assemble at his own house. About a month...