Word: glasse
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...little book called "Flowers that Never Fade," by F. B. Wiley (Boston, Bradlee Whidden), gives an account of the Ware collection of glass flowers in the University Museum, the history of their manufacture, and a biographical sketch of their maker...
...pictures will be taken out to give place to others which deserve a place there, The records of all the teams have been looked up and indexed and upon this basis an effort to make a complete collection of photographs will be made. Along two sides of the room glass cases are to be built into the wall to hold the challenge cups either permanently or temporarily in charge of Harvard teams, as well as other trophies won outright. This collection is to include the class and college trophies also...
Noticeable in the number is a scholarly essay entitled "The Idealistic Basis of Thoreau's Genius," by Daniel Gregory Mason 1G.; "Making it Easy for Martha," a somewhat gloomy but clearly drawn story by Arthur Stanwood Pier, and "As Runs the Glass," a rather weird sketch by R. P. Bellows...
...results of Professor Trowbridge's most recent experiments with his powerful new battery are of great scientific interest. He has found that if you inclose a straight wire in a glass tube and exhaust the air within, and then send a discharge of high electromotive force through the wire, the whole space of the tube will be brilliantly luminous. It looks as if the effect of the x-rays were produced from every point of the wire although it was formerly supposed that a discharge was necessary to produce this effect. The new ray, however, could probably not be used...
...handball room, a room for boxing and wrestling, and a swimming and rowing tank which is the best equipped in the world. This tank is semi-circular in form, with a diameter of 100 feet and a depth of from five to ten feet. Electric lights, protected by plate glass and placed on the bottom will illuminate the water in the tank. The crew will use this tank for indoor practice...