Word: glasses
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...committee in charge of the arrangements for Princeton's exhibit at the Paris Exposition has secured two units of installation, each consisting of a case containing a number of book shelves at the bottom. Above the shelves is a flat, glass covered case, and above this a wing-frame capable of holding thirty-three pictures or charts. The book shelves will be filled with university publications, and special objects of interest will occupy the glass cases. In the wing-frame will be charts illustrating the history and educational organization of the university with views of the buildings and campus...
...observatories. Among the collection of photographs of heavenly bodies will be the stellar charts and photographs of stellar spectra produced with the aid of the great photographic telescope now in South America, the gift of Miss C. W. Bruce of New York. There also will be an exhibit of glass photography illuminated by electricity. The part that Harvard will play in astronomy at the exposition is made doubly important by the probable meeting in Paris next summer of the Astro-Photographic Congress, composed of astronomers from all over the world...
Professor Goodale, who is now in Germany buying apparatus for the Cryptological Library, has conferred with Mr. Blaschka and expects to secure new specimens of glass flowers for the Museum...
...stained-glass window, designed by John La Farge in memory of former President G. C. Felton, has recently been put in place in Sanders Theatre. It is set in the middle window opposite the stage, where its simplicity and the strength of its lines and color-masses command attention from all parts of the theatre. The subject is a figure of Minerva decorating a column with a memorial fillet of purple and gold...
...pictures will be framed uniformly and with the names of the men marked on the mats. The glass case with shelves, for cups, etc., is protected by an iron railing...