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...yesterday's celebration was in its way, almost as much of a success as were all the 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...
...traces of connection with the supernatural shall disappear and the slavery and degradation of pure secularism shall be complete, until at last religion and the mystery of life shall be forever dissipated, and the thin, hard and colorless relic which is left shall be staring upon us in the glare of the electric light which men choose to call by the great name of science. Either of these ways of looking at it all is possible. But there is yet another and a higher possibility. There may be in all this progress of enlargement which we have traced, a richer...
...lying far below. Thousands upon thousands of people were on every hand, waiting breathlessly for the spectacle; but none of them were visible in the darkness. Two rockets shot up ward as signals and then on a sudden, as by a single flash, the old castle burst into a glare of crimson fire. Green light appeared below it; but all else was utter gloom. It was a wonderful sight. Every nook and cranny of the great building was flooded with the fiery glow, as it stood out in unrelieved intensity from the black mountain side. Thus it must have looked...
...former years have surpassed it in the number of the fire-works displayed and excellence of the music furnished by the brass band. For once, the Conference Committee was not obliged to exert its energies in extinguishing bon fires in the yard, but could gaze with satisfaction at the glare of the huge fire on Jarvis. This is the third celebration which '89 has provided this spring, and now that she seems to understand the business thoroughly, there is still another chance in a few weeks at New London. It now remains to be seen whether or not the crew...
...pretence to comfort beyond that of having numbers painted on them at intervals of about eighteen inches. Instead of this, all ladies who come to the base-ball games are forced to choose between personal discomfort or some other person's discomfort; between watching the game in the full glare of the sun in silent anguish, and the alternative of raising their parasols, to the utter annihilation of the persons behind them...