Word: light
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...undergraduate mind to correct all abuses of any moment, and to keep athletics thoroughly democratic. This shut-mouthed policy does us still further injury by causing doubt and uncertainty, mingled with no little suspicion, on the part of our athletic rivals, and by putting us in a bad light with the general public...
Veneration and admiration of and for the Constitution need not and should not cause us to forget that men--great men, many of them, but yet all mere men--framed it, in the light of their day; that everyone of them is dead; that now the Constitution is for us, the living, and not for them or their generation of the dead. So, the vital question is what we believe we need rather than what they believed they and their contemporaries needed; and, if you please to speculate about that, what you think they thought we would or might need...
...dread of that New York organized a Board of Health that set about teaching the new world the a, b, c of sanitation. Pigs were banished from streets and cellars, and that first year 40,000 windows were cut to let light into 40,000 tenement bedrooms that were dark and unventilated. Forty years we have wrestled with the powers of darkness and at last the law forbids the building of a tenement with a dark and airless room in it. The day is coming when it will forbid a man to own one. Meanwhile the sanitarians are trying...
...will give a reading from the works of Henry Newbolt, W. E. Henley and other authors at the regular weekly Sunday afternoon gathering in Phillips Brooks House tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock. After the reading Le R. J. Snyder '08 will sing, and tea, sandwiches, and other light refreshments will be served. The House will be open from 3 to 6 o'clock and books from the Social Service library and magazines will be available for use during the afternoon...
...these days when the approaching mid-years cast a gloom over the College the forthcoming number of the Advocate shows that there are at least some men who can still take life light heatedly, in fact facetiously. By far the longest story, "A Boola Banish Tale," although suggestive of the outline of a comic opera, is very amusing in its ingeniously extravagant setting and in its clever bits of dialogue. The Chghan, with his painted tin poultry, sneezing twice to call his slave, is a successful comic centre for the tale. The story would be improved by a little more...