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Word: brightening (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
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...strengthen debating in this way, and we think that an innovation in the line of the experiment which Yale is reported to have begun, might be of practical value in Cambridge. The object should be, not so much to arrange dinners or other entertainments on special occasions, as to brighten up the regular meetings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/31/1898 | See Source »

Harvard's representatives at the Berkeley Athletic Club and Clyde Park games made a showing that reflects great honor on the college and brighten not a little Harvard's chances of winning the Mott Haven cup. With one world's record broken and one equaled by members of the H. A. A. the college may feel confident of winning one event in which Columbia hoped for first place, and possibly one which Princeton expects to win. On the other hand Yale has strengthened her hold on several events. The intercollegiate games, therefore, will be unusually close, and will probably...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/19/1890 | See Source »

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