Word: light
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...number contains several very good bits of verse. The light poem of Mr. Frothingham, '84, though somewhat long and careless, is perhaps the best of its kind. In a serious tone Mr. Lord's sonnet on the Grave of Pompey, and the stanzas of Rev. T. C. Pease, '75 called The Songless Singer are most noteworthy. Although the theme of the latter is by no means new, yet its smoothness of lines, and depth of feeling make it the best in the issue. Its fault is possibly lack of compactness...
...extend our heartiest birthday congratulations to the Advocate, our eldest sister. She first saw the light in those stormy days at the end of the great Civil War, when the changes, which have since made Harvard a university, were beginning. Through change and storm she has remained steadfast. During her life one college paper and another has risen, flourished, and died; but she alone, among all untouched, has held her sway. Our best wish is that she may be worthy to stand as the oldest paper of "Fair Harvard," our oldest seat of learning. For if the Advocate ever fairly...
...issued to-day. It will contain twenty-three articles and poems by graduate editors. The leading article is by W. G. Peckham, Esq., '67, of New York, the founder of the paper. Dr. A. B. Hart has contributed a very entertaining humorous piece. The nine other light articles and poems are also very bright. The story of the change of the Harvard color from magenta to crimson, in 1875, is told in a witty poem of three columns in length. The more serious prose articles and verse are excellent...
...people, and the people care naught for them." But our American colleges and universities have reached a point of liberalism which may justly place them above those of the old world. By their liberality to the people they gain a well deserved respect. The people see the light that the colleges do not conceal, as of old, but let shine where it will. In no better way, as the Varsity suggests, can these happy relations between colleges and people be sustained than by courses of lectures, open to all, given by prominent professors and specialists. "Cultured men," says our contemporary...
...reasons," "she lifted her eyelids," "she soothed her fears," "she checked her curiosity," "she moved her chair," "she joined in his laugh" (very common), "she broke her usual custom," "she stretched her neck out of the window," "she took up a small candle," "she threw on a light shawl," "she roughened her wrinkles," "she listened to her bird," "she kindled a fire in the brazier...