Word: paled
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...mentioned several times before, Sophomore members of the University Debating Club are not eligible for their class team. Thus the organization whose representative have succeeded in defeating the whole debating strength of 1901 is representative of a portion of a class which in previous years has been outside the pale of debate...
...cathode. It would take 50 or 60 of such cells arranged in series of tandem to produce one incandescent light. If the loop of wire is broken in the middle the lamp will go out. Then if more cells are added until the number is 10, 000 a pale luminous glow will come from the lamp. One terminal of the lamp is called the annode and from this stream these invisible rays...
...lecturer showed, it is nothing more than a large receiver of air from which the air can be exhausted. In order to get the rays, however, you must push the exhaustion only to a certain point. Now instead of using the 10,000 cells already mentioned to produce the pale blue flame, a Ruhmkoff coil is introduced, which makes it possible to get a high electro-motive force...
...transformation of the Ruhmkoff coils in series and connecting the coils with the tube and then exhausting the air, you get the cathode rays. At this point the experiment was performed. The light in the Crooke's tube was a pale blue on the two pole and light pink in the centre. A fluorescence was given off which was of a light blueish-green color. This, Professor Trowbridge explained, was thought by some to be the cathode rays, but the point is still in doubt. No one knows what the rays are. In connection with this the lecturer took...
...Glee, Mandolin and Banjo Clubs, was held in the Casino last Friday night. It was one of the most successfull dances ever held in Princeton. The attendance was very large but the floor was not uncomfortably crowded. The prevailing color used in the artistic decorating was pink mingled with pale green and white, the whole blending very effectively. The boxes were also draped in pink and were all decorated in a most becoming and elaborate manner. Lander's orchestra of New York, hidden by palms and exotics, rendered exceedingly fine dance music. All of the arrangements for supper as well...