Word: glasses
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...mile bicycle, handicap, 120 yards limit (open). 1st prize, Meyrowitz Bros. yachting glass, given by the Coventry Machinists Co.; 2d prize, traveling bag; 3d prize, engraved silver...
...mile bicycle, 3.20 class, scratch, (open to members of the H. B. C.). 1st prize, U. S. signal glass, given by Wm. Read and Son; 2d prize, "Sears Special" racket, given by Wright and Ditson; 3d prize, engraved silver...
...optical parts of the telescope are three-the eye-piece, the object glass, which is twelve inches in diameter and a plain mirror of eighteen inches in diameter, set in front of the object glass. Focal length is sixteen and a half feet. The telescope tube is rested permanently upon two stone piers, one near each end, and twelve feet apart. About five feet of the length of the tube projects into the observatory building and the remainder is out of doors...
...glass of the two telescopes is of the finest French make. The mirror is four inches thick, for any plate would probably change its shape from expansion or flexure. The telescopic tube is jointed so as to be air-tight throughout and at the eye-piece. Its material is steel plate one thirty-second inch thick. The temperature of the room does not effect its interior and no fogging of the object glass has occurred during cold nights...
...some time past, the men of at least three tables at Memorial have been much inconvenienced by a strong draft from a break in one of the colored glass windows on the north side. The window has been broken for some time and the Bursar has been notified of it several times by the steward and the directors, but seems to have done nothing. There can be no question that the matter is worthy of attention, not only in the interest of the health and the comfort of the students, but also for the preservation of the window. The repairs...