Word: darkness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Lampoon which is to appear tomorrow is hardly up to the standard, certainly not as good as last week's issue Spring, the Junior dinner and the vacation are treated in a rather happy vein editorially. The centre picture, "Harvard after dark," by A. K. Moe '97, is a very creditable bit of work in a somewhat different vein from the general run of Lampoon illustrations. The "Constitution of the Guff Club," and "A Hunting Song," the latter presented as an extract from "Ralegh in Guiana," are both clever hits and funny, a statement that cannot truthfully be made...
...ratio might be broken by war. Can our opponents stand sponsors for the peace of Europe? Such a danger as this, when at best the advantages of bimetallism are problematical, make it clear that our present evils must be very great to justify such a leap in the dark. But that no such evils exist is proved by the immense economic prosperity of the past thirty years and what business troubles there are have been in no way due to the currency...
Perhaps from lack of consideration, perhaps from a false sense of economy, the exhibition rooms of the University Museum are very poorly lighted. From personal observation and experience, I have found that the Museum is visited mostly in the short winter afternoons or on dark, rainy days, when there is so little light in the rooms that none but those specimens in the cases nearest the windows can be seen. Several times I have been compelled to leave the Museum many hours earlier than I had intended, merely because I could not see the exhibits. I do not dount that...
Yesterday afternoon a slight accident injured both boats somewhat. It was very dark on the river just as both crews were about to come in and Perkins's boat, rowing up river, smashed into the other boat, tearing out the bow and bending two of their own outriggers...
Yesterday afternoon the candidates for the baseball team were divided into two nines and played a regular game until it became too dark to see. This was the last practice of the year unless the weather should prove particularly favorable next week...