Word: shadows
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...training and could not be spared, the new Sophomore Club has found a place to fill and is filling it well, and courses of instruction provided for the two upper classes. Finally, in the new club one and all have a single goal to attain which casts no shadow of petty rivalry in the path leading to victory over Harvard's rivals...
...night Mr. Robinson spoke on the grouping of figures. He outlined the progress of the groups from the stage in which it was a mere juxtaposition of independent figures to that in which, in statues and in friezes, it acquired a unity of whole. He emphasized the part which shadow effect was made to play in the Greek friezes, and spoke in closing of the painting of Greek sculpture...
...blue fluorescence will produce as good cathode photographs as one that produces a yellow or green fluorescence. It is practically useless to endeavor to obtain photographs with tubes which are not exhausted to a high degree, perhaps one millionth of an atmosphere. When the anode throws a strong shadow of the cathode on the fluorescent walls of the tube one is sure of obtaining photographs and not before. It is a waste of time and dry plates to attempt to take them be means of Edison lamps...
Cathode photographs have been called shadow pictures, but this is not an exactly correct name for them. This is because a piece of glass as thick as a piece of paper absorbs a large number of rays and throws a very thick shadow on the plate while even a thick piece of wood throws hardly any shadow. The shadow photograph, however, is very exact in other respects. In the photograph of the human hand it shows the gradations of the absorption of the rays with the thickness of the bones...
...latest addition to the list of small magazines has just issued from the University Press. It is called the "Shadow." Unlike the rest of its order, it seems to come before the world with an honest literary purpose, and not merely to scoff and to cheer. The first number is bright and intellectual without being "dicadent." As to outer appearance the "Shadow" is simple, rather artistic, and attractive, with a classical cover and good typography. The price is ten cents a copy; published monthly...