Word: light
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...audience that enjoyed last night's concert was somewhat diminished in number, which was due, no doubt, to the inclemency of the weather. The programme was a very light and pleasing one, consisting of the following numbers...
Poor old Harvard seems to be getting it on all sides just now to pay up for the good time she had during the 250th Anniversary. During that brief period of sweetness and light, enough good things were said about her and enough flattery was bestowed upon her to have turned the head of any less sensible old lady. But she only smoothed her dress a bit, put a new crimson ribbon on her cap, and blushed with modest pride...
Whatever the details of the plan may be, every earnest worker in college will be glad to learn that there is to be electric light in the library...
...hail the news that at last, after so much weary waiting, the students of Harvard University are to be removed ex tenebris and introduced into the light of knowledge with keen delight. In fancy we see the pointed windows of Gore Hall pouring forth a flood of cheerful light over the snowbound wastes leading to Harvard street on one hand and to Sever Hall on the other...
...that we can feel sure of having light in the library. we may express our great surprise that it took the college authorities so long to make up their minds to such an important step. All those who aided in this good work and especially those who contributed the great sine qua non deserve the warrant thanks of every man who has the welfare of the University at heart...