Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Advices from Columbia say that the interest in the freshman crew is increasing. The number of men in training is twenty-one. The average age of the candidates is 17 1-2. As several of the men are very light, the average weight is only 150 lbs. The average of the twelve heaviest men is 159 5-6. The Spectator says of them...
...present below an extract from an editorial in the New York Times, which presents an old subject in a new light...
...substitute. Of the new men, Storrs is a prominent foot-ball rusher and a powerful anchor in class tugs ; Scott is a heavy-weight wrestler, and Cowles is a foot-ball rusher and heavy-weight sparer ; all have pulled in class races. The new men are rather light and a New Haven report says that the average of all will be 166-167 lbs., 5 or 6 pounds lighter than the crew of last year. As our own crew will not weigh much more at the time of the race the two sets of men will be about evenly matched...
...Yale News claims that their coxswain is so light that he carries weights to prevent the wind from carrying him away...
...request of U. S. Signal Service by Prof. Trowbridge on the subject of atmospheric electricity with a view to learn its value for meteorological purposes. The method employed was that known as the Thompson one and required very delicate instruments. The result is that a beam of light from a gas flame is reflected from a mirror upon a prepared sheet of sensitried paper and the record of any change in the place of an electric needle is thus obtained by photography. The apparatus in use has several new points in its arrangements that will undoubtedly be of great value...