Word: brights
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...speaker then requested his audience to question him in regard to what he had said, and quite a number of men availed themselves of the opportunity and were answered in a bright and entertaining manner...
...last number of the Advocate is by far the most readable since the '90 board took charge of the paper. All of the articles are short, and most of them bright and entertaining. The first editorial discusses the new regulation in regard to registration. After condemning this rule as a possible "sop to Cerberus," the leader closes as follows: "We admit the principle of the resolution is indisputably correct, but we protest against it as rank injustice unless it be accompanied by longer recesses." The system of special reports is next criticised as "carried greatly to excess," so that many...
...have just received the first number of a new monthly magazine La Revue Francaise, which is destined to become very popular with all who take an interest in French literature and enjoy short French stories. The magazine is published in a very attractive form, and is full of bright stories which cannot but be of interest to all who are at all familiar with the French language...
...Burnouf, and De I'Etude et de I'Enseignement des Langues Vivantes by Panl Berry. The latter article is one of especial interest to members of such a university as Harvard, in which so much attention is paid to modern languages. The number as a whole is very bright and contains several interesting stories as well as two or three bright bits of verse...
...hope that the new crew may be a success and realize its expectation of making the prospects of the 'Varsity as bright as possible...