Word: light
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Grows pale in the evening light, and dies...
...State House still remain; while across the water, says G. W. Curtis in his "Eulogy on Sumner," "Lo! memorial of a battle lost and a cause won, the tall, gray, melancholy shaft on Bunker Hill rises; 'rises till it meets the sun in his coming, while the earliest light of morning gilds it, and parting day lingers and plays on its summit...
...injure the Faculty, for it, being a corporation, has no soul, and therefore is incapable of moral harm. It does not injure the individual, but on the contrary puts him, in the true spirit of democracy, on a level with his brothers who spread a veil before the glaring light of truth for fear of injury to their eyes. The person who tells the truth to the Faculty suffers yet another moral injury, for, seeing himself suffering for the same thing for which others escape scot-free, he loses his sense of immutable justice, and regards himself as a wronged...
GREAT indignation has been roused this week by the breaking up of what is called a "time-honored custom." This is, probably, one of those familiar cases which has two sides, and before coming to a conclusion we propose to look at it in more than one light. The facts are that considerable noise has been made lately when men were "running for the Pudding"; this noise has disturbed some of the occupants of the buildings in the Yard, and has disturbed the President in his office. He therefore summoned on Monday an officer of the Hasty Pudding Club...
...company or familiar acquaintance of persons of ungirt and dissolute life," or be present at any "Courts, Elections, Faires, Traineings," etc., without leave; and, finally, they were not allowed to "stay out of the Colledge after nine of the clock at night, nor watch after eleven, nor have a light before four in the morning, except upon extraordinary occasions...