Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...passing vessel ran into and burst the gas main across the Charles River Monday evening, causing the light to be very much dimmed, and necessitating the closing of many places of entertainment. Leavitt and Pierce were obliged to close at eight o'clock...
...doubtlessly a great source of annoyance and inconvenience for those who rely upon gas-light by which to do their evening reading, to have the light grow so dim that they can scarcely distinguish the letters before them. Such a state of affairs must, however, be borne with the best grace possible for the next two or three days. A leak has been discovered in one of the principal gas mains in Cambridgeport and while this is being repaired, the college dormitories are dependant upon the gas supply brought over from East Cambridge. The work of repairing has been rendered...
...sentence passed was that the number '91 should be painted in vermillon on a conspicious part of the persons of the accused freshmen. In the execution of the sentence, however, water was used instead of vermilion paint. The freshmen did not regard the joke in so agreeable a light as the rest of the college did, particularly as the sophomores had made trouble at their class dinner, a short time before. Accordingly, by way of revenge, they formed a plot against the sophomore who had acted as judge at the trial of the three freshmen. They sent him a telegram...
...Record will continue to print light articles and amusing stories, but an artistic editor has been added. This change is intended to make the Record similar to the Harvard Lampoon. The Courant, on the other side, will give up publishing light articles and will confine itself to work of a historical character, thus becoming a medium between the Record and the Literary Magazine...
...some distance from the main excavations were brought to light a female head, the torso of a draped statue of a woman, and a tombstone very beautifully inscribed. The good workmanship exhibited by this gravestone, the admirable style of the bas-reliefs, the ancient manner of spelling exemplified in the inscription, makes it probable that these works belong to the period between the fourth century before and the second century after Christ. The three bas-reliefs mentioned above are interesting to the archaeologists. The first of these contains three figures, two standing and one sitting. They represent the scene...