Word: brights
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...civil and military service to competitive examination, thus giving the sons of the poorest and humblest men in the country a fair chance of filling places in the government service, which had previously been reserved for the younger sons of the gentry with such rigor that John Bright once called that service "a vast system of out-door relief for the British aristocracy." Indeed, it was said that "in England the opening of the civil and military service, in its influence upon the national education, was equivalent to a hundred thousand scholarships and exhibitions of the most valuable kind...
...without shaking Elihu, though himself nothing of an athlete. As an outsider then, he has such a feeling of diffidence on the subject as to prevent him from making anything like a dogmatic statement can only suggest. But it seems to him that it would have been a bright idea for the Harvard Athletic Committee-body of august power and marvelous foresight-to have delayed their decree until the inter-collegiate association had made the annual changes in the rules. Surely if there is the strong public opinion on the subject which the committee has painted, the association must...
...have found that our former prognostications of success have seldom come true, therefore we are resolved this year not to prognosticate. While the team seems to be training steadily enough, its prospects cannot be said to be over bright. The battery will be new and inexperienced, and although there are several of last year's nine remaining, the fact of being on last year's nine does not give them much prestige ; success for the nine is not impossible, but it does not seem probable."-[Princetonian...
...alive to the enormous demands which they make upon us. We freely forgive them. Their excuse is ignorance or the present low state of the thermometer, which accounts for many cool things. When they have been longer with their class they will begin to comprehend that the number of bright men with whom they are associated is legion-not four...
Among the "first-nighters" at the opening performance of the Bijou's latest operetta, "Prince Methusalem," were many Harvard men, who seemed to enjoy greatly the many bright passages in the play...