Word: light
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...success, were not fulfilling the object for which they were intended, it must now have disappeared. The meeting of Tuesday evening was of the greatest use in enabling the students to see the hitherto obnoxious and ill-understood recommendations of the Overseers in a much more satisfactory light...
Feather-weight wrestling (under 118 pounds); light-weight wrestling, 118-140 pounds); middle-weight wrestling (140-158 pounds); heavy-weight wrestling (over 158 pounds); spring board jump, running high jump, putting 16 pound shot...
...nine has not as yet been able to get the cage for regular practice. The batteries alone are allowed its use; but in about three weeks the nine will begin practice in earnest. At present a light system of training is undergone, the work consisting in the use of the weights, dumb-bell exercises, vaulting, and a short run on the track...
...recent restrictive resolutions of the overseers have called forth such comment in the newspapers of the day, and particularly in the college press, as to put in an unfair light the liberal policy of our university. It has suddenly become the fashion for many other colleges to wash their hands of Harvard's system and to put themselves on record as supporters to a greater or less extent of the conservative spirit. It is, of course, obvious that a blind liberal policy is more dangerous than a blind conservative policy, but that critic of the Harvard system who designates...
Some sixty views were then thrown in rapid succession by the calcium light on to the white wall, and Professor Cooke, in his entertaining way, commented on each as it passed. All the pictures were interesting, and many of them beautiful. Among them may be mentioned several fine views of the Coliseum, showing its construction and the recent excavations, the Aqueducts, the Arch of Constantions, the Aqueducts, the Arch of Constantine, a view from the Capital looking back over the Forum, the Via Sacra, several views of the Tiber, and, last of all, St. Peter's, showing the dome...