Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...other features of Harvard's great festivities. The torchlight procession was carefully arranged, and presented a very organized appearance. The great variety of costumes, of transparencies, with their manifold jokes, the dazzling glare of torches, from which every now and then, a stream of fire shot into the clear, cold sky, must all have afforded a great deal of delight to the sleepy inhabitants of Cambridgeport and to those of our own venerable, old, hoary Cambridge. All the happiness and gayety culminated when on Holmes' field the messengers arose from earth to carry the news of Harvard's gladness...
...three features which yesterday marked the progress of the celebration were interesting and attended by innumerable crowds, and therefore successful in the extreme. The cold, clear weather undoubtedly had much to do with this result, as many ladies and alumni would otherwise have been unable to attend the exercises. Such an accident, however, we should have deemed far from unfortunate, thinking as we are of the fearful crush which accompanied each one of yesterday's happenings. To recount the lectures of the morning service is to tell how enjoyable they were. The full anniversary chorus of the Glee Club sang...
...great anniversary days the city bathes itself in the higher loyalty, the broader patriotism of the state. On his birthday, when he stops his work to gather up his life, the man knows himself more than the individual: the whole humanity to which he belongs grows clear to him. Nor is this something which belongs only to the day of anniversary observance. It comes with the lapse of history itself. Every institution which healthily lives is always in the very process of its life, freeing itself more and more from slavery to its partial and temporary connections and entering into...
Early in the morning there was such a heavy mist that it was thought doubtful whether or no the races would be rowed on time. But all doubts on this subject were dispelled as the fog began to lift at about nine o'clock, leaving a clear course to the contestants...
Saturday, the last day of the jubilee, dawned bright and clear. The programme devoted the daytime to "verschiedene Ausfluge," which might be translated "go-as-you-please jubilations." In the evening came the illumination of the castle and bridge, a sight well worth seeing. Long before dark the streets were thronged with eager multitudes hurrying to advantageous positions whence to view the spectacle. Perhaps the favorite place was on the Heiligenberg, the lofty hill across the Neckar, and there I took my stand in the garden of the Philosophenhoche. Gradually the daylight faded, and starless night came down. Heidelberg...