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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...common electric lights and in sunlight, but as yet scientists have proved their existence only in a vessel such as Crooke's tube. With these invisible rays photographs can be taken at any time, even in the sunlight. In connection with the cathode photographs it is interesting to note the length of exposure that has been necessary to take photographs at different periods. The table is as follows...
...went to the grammar school of the town. He left it at the age of sixteen and for two years helped his father in the bookshop. One incident of this period resulted fifty years later in Johnson's only connection with Litchfield after boyhood which the world takes note of. His father begged him one day to go to the neighboring town of Uttoxeter to tend his bookstall. The boy refused from pride. The man, half a century afterward, found himself in Litchfield on the anniversary of that day; he was missed by his hosts; and it was afterward discovered...
...matter of great interest to the University to learn of the experiments now being carried on in the same line, and it would seem with much success, by Professor Trowbridge in the Physical Laboratory. An account of the experiments is given in another column. It is interesting to note how quickly the attention and study of scientists the world over is directed to a matter like this, almost at the moment that the first initiatory discovery is made known. If the latter proves in this case to be of the great scientific and practical value which is predicted...
...last year's interscholastic meeting and H. H. Fish '99 who won second place in the quarter mile. Then there is E. A. Starbuck '99 the mile runner from Andover, who won second place in this event in the interscholastics two years ago. Two other new men of some note are P. E. Somers who has jumped over twenty-one feet in the Maine interscholastic games and D. Grant, who did such good work in the mile run last fall...
...connection with the removal of Columbia College to its new site on Morningside Heights, it is interesting to note the rapid progress made in this direction during the past few years. It is almost exactly four years since the proposition was made to the trustees that they should buy the site that has since come into their possession. Thus in this comparatively short period of time the matter has advanced from a bare proposition to the purchase of the ground, to the approval of a general plan for the arrangement of the buildings upon the new site...