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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...suddenly been opened letting in a gust of wind, and sparks can be drawn from the brick walls of the room. Sparks closely resembling lightning discharges can be obtained thirty and forty feet in length through glass tubes in which the atmospheric pressure has been reduced to about two pounds and a half to the square inch...
...been found by experiment with this apparatus that air submitted to an electrical pressure of over two million volts becomes a fairly good conductor. In order to insulate the apparatus, it is placed three feet above the floor, and even in this position, luminous discharges from the apparatus to the floor and the room is darkened...
...land secured for the Harvard Infirmary is the lot between the land of the Cambridge Hospital and that of the Old Peoples' Home-one hundred feet on Mt. Auburn street and extending back to the new Parkway. The proposed building will be of brick with stone trimmings, two and a half stories in height, with a frontage of forty-six feet, and a length of one hundred and thirty feet or more. In addition to the single rooms for students there will be a library and reading room for convalescents, rooms for the parents whose sons are patients...
Among the remaining members of the class there will be a biologist, a superintendent of public schools, a commission merchant, two draughtsmen, three writers and literary critics, an iron founder, a coffee cultivator, a musician, a geologist, an entomologist, a mining expert, a forester, a gas engineer, three military men, a dentist, a wholesale grocer, a dealer in live stock, an actor, an artist, and a missionary...
...Two matches in the consolations of the spring tournament were played yesterday afternoon. Clerk 1901 beat Jacobs '98, 6-3, 6-4, in the first round; and Clerk 1901, beat Poor 1901, 6-3-6-2, in the semi-finals...