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...also a waste of time to endeavor to make Crookes tubes largely of aluminum. Unless the aluminum window is very small and extremely thin the occluded air in the aluminum cannot be driven off in the process of exhaustion. When the window is made of very thin aluminum it cannot be larger than a ten cent piece; and there is no cement which is serviceable for any length of time. Glass is the only practical substance for Crookes tubes. The great difficulty at present in the application of the cathode photography to surgery lies in the expense of the method...
...board showing the plays as they are made in one of the correspondence matches with Yale has been placed in Sever's window...
Some time ago an offer was submitted to the University Corporation from an unknown benefactor to put in a new window in the north end of the transept at Memorial Hall, in memory of those whose names are inscribed on the tablets of the transept. The Corporation accepted this anonymous offer and appointed a committee to arrange the matter. Owing to the death of Mr. Brimmer, the chairman of this committee, to whom the designs were submitted, the work has been somewhat delayed. The window probably will not be completed for at least two years. The scaffolding now up around...
...limited by its span. The only means of using a circular arch where the height is to be greater than the span, is by elevating or tilting it. This is a cumbrous construction and belongs to the Romanesque architecture. The circular arch was long retained in covering window openings, and in the arch construction of the triforium...
From a Graduate's Window...