Word: roome
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...year or two ago there existed in this university a club, apparently in a flourishing condition, which has now disappeared entirely. I refer to the Harvard Society of Amateur Photographers. In 1886, this society had on its books a membership of nearly thirty, with a dark room and gallery in the museum grounds. Since that time the society has entirely died out and now if a man wants to take pictures and develop them himself, he is forced either to put up with the very insufficient accommodations attainable in his room, or to go in to Boston, and there avail...
...entries for the second meeting will close at 10 p. m. this evening. The secretary will be in his room, to receive entries from 7.30 to 10 this evening...
...large audience gathered yesterday afternoon in the lecture-room of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory on the occasion of Professor J. Trowbridge's lecture on "The scientific appliances of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory and the scientific work now being done there...
...first part of the lecture was a detailed description of the laboratory. The laboratory, Prof. Trowbridge said, is divided into two equal parts, one for elementary work and the other for special research. The large lecture-room, intended for general elementary lectures, is fitted up with the best modern appliances, with running water, with high-pressure hot water, with electric currents, with oxygen-hydrogen lamps, etc. The room above is the elementary; etc. The room above is the elementary; it is sixty feet by sixty feet, the largest of its kind, and is used by one hundred and thirty students...
...machine-room in the basement of the east end is one of the most important resources of the laboratory. It is here that the professors and advanced students materialize their ideas, and make their new apparatus. The work now being done is manifold. Professor Hall is at present busy in investigating how much steam is lost in the cylinder of an engine when in work. On account of the extreme heat thermometers cannot be used, and Professor Hall is therefore employing a very delicate electrical instrument. The relation of light to electricity and magnetism is being worked...