Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Dartmouth, however, there seems to be as yet little hope for a change of sentiment, as long as a class will endorse disturbances similar to the one of the past week. We hope, however, that in time the New Hampshire college will look at these matters in a different light, and will join those colleges who have endeavored to blot out these affairs from the annals of American college life...
...adjourned to Boylston where they examined the mineralogical cabinet, and at 4 assembled in 9 Boylston, where a paper on the "Relative Strength of American Woods" was read by Prof. Sharples, and an experiment was performed by Prof. J. P. Cooke with the aid of magic lantern and electric light, showing the critical point of carbonic acid...
...junior history of the class of '76 of Dartmouth College records the ingenious devices of a couple of students who wished to light the fires without rising to do it. A correspondent who sends us the following extracts vouches for the accuracy of the statements therein made: "Van. constructed during the winter an apparatus which connected an alarm clock with a system of weights and pulleys, and these again with his stove door, so that when the machine was wound up and properly adjusted it could, at the precise moment agreed upon, ring a bell, wind up a spool, drop...
...WEATHER.WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 23, 1883, 1 A. M. For New England, slightly colder north-east to north-west winds, occasional light snow and partly cloudy weather, higher barometer...
...Laughlin delivered a very able and interesting lecture last night before a large audience, on "The Sub-Treasury System." The lecturer traced the growth of the present system from that formerly in vogue, and afterwards set forth in clear light the defects that now embarrass it. The undesirable relation of the Secretary of the Treasury with the money market, brought about by the act of 1864, in which it is enacted that the banks shall not be depositories for receipts for customs, and which, therefore, forces the treasury to hold in its vaults large amounts of specie, was discussed...