Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...walk up and down and criticise the action of men who turn up their coat-collars, but let the proctor sit down for a few hours and endeavor to hold a pen in his benumbed fingers, and I think he would soon view the matter in a different light...
EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON.-Is it from a spirit of economy that all the gas jets in the halls of the college dormitories are extinguished after eleven o'clock, or is it from the dislike to light which is one of the characteristics of the college buildings, shown elsewhere in the case of that gymnasium lamp and also the lamp at Memorial. To return from the theatre or a call in Boston after the fatal hour of eleven, and be obliged to grope one's way up stairs, does not leave one in a comfortable state of mind,-or of body...
...placing a shaving of a rock, ground so as to be translucent, between the prisms, one can tell the composition of the rock, by examining the colors of the component parts of the shaving in polarized light...
...might be the case last Saturday in reprinting telegraphic accounts of a bowl-rush and "riot" at the University of Pennsylvania, the account given was considerably exaggerated and prejudiced. The following description of the rush from an impartial outsider, the New York Times, sets the matter in a better light. As a whole it cannot be said, however, that the affair reflects credit on either party. The students apparently put themselves in the position of an ungentlemanly mob, and as such deserved the correction they obtained. If for nothing less than a description of a curious-relic of custom nearly...
...Nihilist" today is not necessarily an anarchist or a denier of everything, as I am told you consider him. He may not even believe as the most of us do, however, that the true remedy for Russian ills must extend to the social make-up, according to the new light of Louis Blanc and Lassalle. But he unites with us in the struggle for the abolition of Czardom. Between despotism and liberty, he chooses for liberty...