Word: brightness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...rogues having written the letter and dispatched it in advance of his visit. After much difficulty, with the aid of other letters in his possession, he succeeded in dispossessing the minds of the brethren of their first impressions, and took his seat as a member. But they kept a bright lookout on him all the while, lest the craze should get the better...
...last number of the Crimson was especially bright and entertaining. It is a great pity that the editors of that paper are not published, for they surely should receive the credit due them for giving their readers so many pert verses and pleasing short stories. The Crimson has our best wishes for the success it so richly deserves. - [Acta...
...left somewhat chagrined. This was not the first instance of the kind. Quite an amusing accident befel one of the girls last fall. It was a freshman, who thought she would stay away from chapel one evening. By way of amusement she strolled through the corridor, and, seeing a bright light in a room, concluded to make a call. Two ladies were sitting by the table reading when our friend entered and exclaimed, "Hallo! didn't you go to chapel, either? It is great fun to 'cut,' I think." She talked on in school girl dialect for some time, until...
Toward this square of light, on the evening in question, a child's figure was struggling manfully through the blinding snow. The child was not any too warmly dressed to battle alone against such heavy odds: an old fur cap and a bright red scarf, over a short round-jacket; hands without mittens, that he kept in his pockets as well as he could. The boy made slow progress, being beaten back by sudden gusts of wind and snow; slowly gaining after each rebuff of this sort, he at last reached the store. His hands were by this time...
...Roses bright and rare...