Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fire at Pach's studio on Friday night was discovered by a roundsman on Main street. Noticing through the side-lights of the operating room the reflection of a bright light, he forced open the door and saw the flames breaking through the partition that separated the "dark room" from the reception room. The nearest box was at the junction of Main street and Putnam avenue; but for some reason he was unable to open this, and much time was consumed while he made his way to Harvard square. There is little doubt but that the fire was caused...
...Maine. We have often taken occasion before this to comment upon the awfulness and depravity of the practice of hazing, and Bowdoin College has more than once furnished us a text. But now a case has happened at that college over which it little behooves the public to make light. One freshman, it is reported, after long and vain entreaties on the part of the authorities and assurances of protection, has at last tremblingly confessed the story of his wrongs. One short sentence tells it all: "They stole his peanuts." No ordinary case this of personal assault, of demolishing property...
...years from thirteen to twenty in acquiring general knowledge is on a totally different platform; he is in the best sense an aristocrat. Those who begin work at thirteen, and those that are born not to work at all, are alike his inferiors. He should be able to spread light all around. He it is that may stand forth before the world as the model...
...physical and mental. The next best time for exercising is the afternoon, from four to six, and the worst time of all, the early morning before breakfast. The custom in the rural districts of rising about four A. M. and working several hours before breakfast, especially when but a light supper is taken the night before, is, in the doctor's opinion, simply barbarous, as the body is in the very worst condition possible. During his college course he was one of the members of a boat crew which, while in training, was accustomed to run six miles before breakfast...
...WEATHER.WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 26, 1. A. M. For New England, generally fair weather, except light snow in the southern section, northerly veering to easterly winds, stationary or lower temperature, rising followed by falling barometer...