Word: brightness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...were given with a great deal of snap and sprightliness. They made a welcome number of the programme. A mixed quartette, in which two of the singers sang falsetto, created much amusement. Mr. Carpenter's song, "Man in the Moon," was well sung and well received. It is a bright composition, and shows considerable originality...
...Columbiad board from '89 is composed of the following men: Bright, Miller, Johnson, Shillaber Donnell, H. Odell...
...bright but somewhat cool. Before the game was finished the 500 spectators were beginning to think longingly of their open fire-places, and some were bewailing their foolishness in leaving their overcoats in their rooms. Of these 500 spectators, about 350 watched the proceedings from the other side of the fence. It is a question whether it is advisable to charge fifty cents admission to the earlier and comparatively less important games...
...routine of his new life. Every member of the incoming class finds himself in receipt of an invitation from the venerable president to attend a reception at his residence. Excitement ensues; wardrobes are ransacked and set in order; lessons are hastily read, or pushed aside; visions of bright forms and thoughts of conquest flit through the undergraduate mind; upper-classmen are quizzed as to the probabilities of the evening, social, and even gastronomical. At the appointed time, a long train of students file into the president's library, and are warmly received by that gentleman, his wife, various members...
...taken from the 96th Psalm, the 9th verse, "Oh, worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness." In the old Hebrew usage this was taken in its liberal meaning, and a beautiful dress was considered necessary in worshipping the Lord. The beauty of holiness makes the plainest face look bright and happy; it makes the sick smile, and the old appear as if they had the crown of life. In old age a man's features are moulded by his character and the life he has led. The word holiness was originally wholeness, and without the latter idea joined...