Word: light
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Cambridge police and justices have always shown a remarkable degree of zeal in punishing with severity small offences. Now when men who have committed actual crime are brought for trial, they are dismissed with a fine of fifteen dollars. The circumstance, to view it in the most favorable light, has an unpleasantly suspicious color...
...season, and a strong enthusiastic support encourages a nine to its best work. Our nine certainly deserves all the support that can be given it. Besides this, the expense of the trip will be materially lessened if enough men decide to go. Therefore, since the expense will be comparatively light and the necessary absence from Cambridge short, we strongly urge all men who possibly can to accompany the nine Saturday...
LOST.- From the ante-room of Sever 11, on Saturday morning, May 12th, a Mackintosh, light colored, with cape attached (inside lining a large red check). If brought to 28 Mellen St., a reward will be given and no questions asked...
...simple language. The story is almost dramatic in its interest. One of the best productions that have come from the pen of an editor of the Monthly is the account of "An Eighteenth Century Jubilee," written by Mr. Howe. The careful handling of detail, the judicious mingling of light and shade, the vivacity of expression and the lightness of touch manifested in this sketch give a peculiarly charming effect. The writer has caught the happy spirit without the ridiculousness of Boswell, whose strange acts at the Shakespeare jubilee of 1769 are incidentally described. Mr. Herrick's story, "Optimaet Pessima...
...from Andromache and his son Astyanax. The windows are five feet wide and fifteen feet high, and are of colored glass, no paint being used except in the flesh tones. The artist has been restricted in his use of the darker shades by the necessity of admitting as much light as possible into the Hall. One window is filled by the armed figure of Hector, while the other is given up to Andromache and her son. The work has been done wholly under Mr. Crowninshield's personal direction...