Word: brightness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Barton, Elliott Bright...
...genial sky and favorable breezes there is something very alluring to strangers in the series of struggles to be witnessed in the Gut, the Plough and the Long Reach, from the vantage-ground of Grassy Corner or Ditton Meadows. Long lines of eager young gownsmen, each in the bright uniform of his college club, rush panting up the tow-path, uttering a babel of discordant but exhilarating cries of encouragement to their champions on the water. One by one the graceful craft appear in sight, the oarsmen swinging like a piece of perfect mechanism, the blades flashing in the evening...
...five minutes after ten last evening the sullen fire-cracker sounded its note of alarm in the yard. Windows were hastily opened and anxious heads thrust out; hurrying crowds gathered at the scene. A bright light illuminated the eastern side of the quadrangle, and in dangerous proximity to University Hall the devouring element, vomiting forth smoke and flame from a half dozen tar barrels, well stuffed with cannon crackers, cast a lurid glare over the spectators. Proctors rushed to the scene. The everready Cambridge fire department, represented by an aged man with a leaky bucket of water, promptly appeared...
...sorry to hear that the game between the Harvard and Yale freshmen will probably have to be finally given up. The prospects for the success of our freshman team were very bright, and since they have been playing against the 'Varsity improvement has been very rapid. Although some of the best players have been so injured as to be unable to play, their positions have been very acceptably filled by new but ambitious men who play surprisingly well...
...crept closer to him, till her bright head was pillowed on his chest. Was it still a girlish jest, a girlish freak...