Word: noon
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Professor" of Mesmerism, whose entertainment was so ruthlessly broken up by Princeton students last week, has been having further trouble. About noon last Monday he was discovered perambulating through the entries of Witherspoon Hall, entering rooms the occupants of which were absent. He claimed to be looking for certain phrenological charts which were torn from the walls by the crowd who broke up his show, and which he believed were concealed in some of the students' rooms. He was summarily ejected by the college police, as the college law forbids strangers the privileges of the buildings unless accompanied by students...
...senior crew rowed at 12 (noon) yesterday...
...meals at Memorial Hall, beginning Sunday noon, will be served according to the new standard. The College has adopted the standard time for prayers and recitations...
...seventy-fifth meridian, to be known as "Eastern Time." This time is exactly five hours slower than Greenwich Mean Time. and 15 minutes 44.5 seconds slower than Boston State House Time heretofore furnished. It is intended that the new time shall be given to the public at noon on the Sunday named above; but as the Observatory signals are the means by which the persons in charge of -public time-pieces will make the necessary preparation for the change, it has been decided to furnish the new signals at an earlier hour. Attention is therefore called to the following arrangement...
...signals given according to State House Time will stop at Greenwich midnight, Saturday, November 17, 1883; that is, at about 7h. 16 P. M., by the local time. The signals according to "Eastern time" will begin at Greenwich noon on Sunday, November 18; that is, at 7h Om A. M., by the new standard. The minute immediately preceding 7h A. M. will be entirely occupied by a long rattle of about 36 seconds and a pause of about 24 seconds. This will also occur during the minutes immediately preceding the hours 8, 9, 10, and 11, A. M. The first...