Word: light
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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LOST.- At the game Saturday, a lady's coat of light gray material made by Litter. The finder will receive a reward on returning the coat to 14 Matthews...
...Henry James is such a powerful writer that I take great delight in reading his works. He has given up his pottering of years past and has become more finished, light, but yet powerful. Time was when I thought Howells was in the lead, but I think James has beaten him altogether. Howells has made a formula and swallowed it, and it has stuck to him. James looks at the world instead of a swinging black ball of geometrical proportions. Still, I think Howells will change his ideas. He seems too clever a man to stick to them. The recent...
...Harvard game at Cambridge, Yale was completely out-played, making but three base-hits off the Harvard pitcher, while the Yale fielding was so poor that 29 runs were made on 18 base hits. The final score stood 29 to 5. With this disastrous game ended the chain of light defeats which Yale experienced from Harvard. Up to the end of '73 there can be no doubt that the Harvard nines were uniformly better than the Yale nines. Harvard's advantage lay in the number of excellent clubs in and near Boston, from whom she learned a scientific knowledge...
...immediately apparent, a difference which Harvard considers greatly to its credit, but which would be unheard of elsewhere. The freshmen sat quietly in their places and had their photographs taken as if it was a matter of course. There was not a sophomore to be seen, no reflected light was cast on the group to spoil the picture, and the whole ordeal passed off only less solemly and less soberly than the one through which '88 had just passed...
...singing of the choir was unusually good, and formed a very attractive part of the service. The anthems were: "Saviour, when night covers the skies," by Shelley; "And they rest not day and night," by Tuckerman, and "There is sprung up a light," by Armes...