Word: light
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Columbia crew has challenged the New York Athletic club to a series of three races on the Harlem. The races will be rowed in light oared shells. The races are to be two three and four miles in length respectively the winner of the odd race to receive a silver cup valued at $100. It is thought, if this challenge is accepted, that the practice thus obtained will benefit the crew for its race with Harvard more than the accustomed race with the class crews...
...take my note book and try to write, but the sun comes blazing down on the back of my head and neck till my eyes swim and I wonder whether my hair will be light pink or blue the next day. This may sound fearful, but I have got such severe headaches from this tri-weekly broiling that I prefer to cut and grind up the course in the library rather than attend the lectures. A few curtains will not impoverish our lords and masters, and will cure the defect; - why can't they be hung there at once, especially...
...present existing in the college, simply (so affirmed) because of a lack of funds to obviate them, are once brought before us, we cannot but wonder how the claims of a foreign school can be preferred to those of our own. Our library, from a lack of funds to light it, has proved to be the most annoying of all our privileges, nor can we succeed even for a moment in driving the fact home, that it is absolutely useless to a large minority of the students and a cause of infinite care to the rest. We might cite...
William Pennell, of the University of Pennsylvania gymnasium, declares that rubber soled shoes are bad for the feet, but he will not prohibit their use in the gymnasium. He recommends light canvass shoes, with leather soles...
...subject for the Conference Committee to take under their consideration, when the numerous weighty questions of college discipline and policy have been discussed and settled, is, if they will pardon the suggestion, the relative merits of naptha and gas as illuminating fluids. We do not favor lighting the yard much more than it is at present, but it seems as though the quality of the light obtained from a number of gas lamps equal to the present number of naptha "dips," would be enough better to make up for the additional expense. Further more, the odors coming from the naptha...