Word: glare
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...band or the orchestra strikes up the first bars, we stand, remove our hats, and begin valiantly with the heroic query of "Oh say, can you see?" Finding that no one can see we relapse into a humming monotone, cheerful, although unintelligible. It is only at "the rockets' red glare, the bombs' bursting in air," that our patriotic choruses come out with full assurance again. That bit or warlike description has fixed in our memory where other things have faded. This speaks somewhat for the power of our associations with the 4th of July...
...sport that endures through the year is fires. Nowhere north of Halifax on the best authority of seasoned travelers, do such glorious fires take place as in Cambridge, In the dark of the night or the glare of the morn, while the midnight oil is theoretically burning, the deep bell of the fire alarm sounds. And forth from the Yard and the Gold Coast, from Widener and Phillips Brooks, from every shanty, dormitory or palace between Persis smith and Perkins, the rejoicing students rush...
Arrangements have been completed for the Annual Senior Junket to be held in the Baseball Cage on the evening of April 30. The class will assemble in the Yard, form in ranks of 11, and March to Soldiers Field behind "Lefty Louis'" German Band, under the glare of flaming torches. Immediately the brilliant carnival of amusements and music will begin on the first floor of the "Junket Hall." Every opportunity will be provided for getting rid of surplus coins. Prince "Pu-Pu-La," just imported from Africa, world's famous dodger, will perform. There will also be a specially built...