Word: brights
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...been said to the point, do there not remain many questions to be asked and much information to be gained? What is it intended that this so-called university club shall be? If a custom of exclusion is to be practiced the result is that the club, however bright its promise, cannot succeed in meeting such a need as is said to exist. If the club on the other hand is to be simply a meeting place little less general than the yard, and every man who cares to do so can spend an hour at the club house with...
Prof. Goodwin, whose bright face brought out a loud welcome, after thanking the gentlemen for their kind reception, said he could not sit still and hear these statements. The gentleman entered on a humerous speech, and, after creating repeated laughter, went on to say that 30 years ago five teachers were sufficient to teach Latin and Greek. Now the whole is elective, and ten men work harder than those five did. They gave only 28 hours a week in new instruction, and then, perhaps, half of them were not actually devoted to new instruction, and now 87 hours were given...
...Bright College Years, Carm. Yalen...
...that he has really come to a more perfect and real understanding of the life he has had to lead. In the Locksley Hall," there was the life and aspirations of a young and romantic poet disregarding the trials of daily life and looking forward into the future, made bright by an optimistic vision. In the "Locksley Hall Sixty Years After" it is the man lost, disregarding the existing incompleteness of life, and therefore more subdued and with a vein of sadness, yet one who sees and realizes the good when once attained, and therefore the man of true optimism...
...Bright Scholarship...