Word: lighter
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...between the academies and the School of Mines, the paper has changed its name and dress. Not to bestow too much praise on an initial number, we can truly say that if the excellence of the present is maintained it will rank very high among college journals. Besides numerous lighter articles and bits of poetry, it contains a clearly written sketch of the history of the College, from which it appears that ever since its foundation, in 1754, it has been steadily advancing in influence and wealth, until in regard to this latter particular it is probably the best endowed...
...With lighter, fairer hair than ours, and with a paler face...
...classmates to live together, and consequently I have here men of every class, description, taste, and habit, mingled together. I know of but one entry in college where the opposite is the case, and there, while the students lose none of the solid benefits, they gain many of the lighter enjoyments of college life...
...Church of the Advent, Boston, for this pamphlet. Although sermons do not form as large a part of college reading as might be desired, still the character of the two mentioned above may gain for them something of the attention which is usually bestowed upon literature of a lighter sort. The first is an able refutation of that unscientific theory - as it seems to many - advocated by Tyndall, which seeks to estimate the value of prayer by a test applicable only to human science, and which implies something very like omniscience in those who are to make the experiment...
Boston Theatre.During the last week of her engagement Miss Neilson alternated "Romeo and Juliet" with "As you like it." Rosalind is purely a comedy part, and differs as far as possible from that of Juliet. Throughout the lighter scenes the beautiful actress was the very impersonation of mirth and light-heartedness. Her smiles and laughter were natural and contagious. Nothing could exceed the grace of her figure, her costume, and her movements. She was most pleasing in her interview with Orlando containing the words "Woo me now," in her advice to the unhappy Shepherds, and in the Epilogue...