Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...LATE writer in one of the College papers gave the results of some desultory readings in the Catalogue, and advised the public in general to spend their leisure moments in dipping into this interesting volume. And really, any one who will take his light reading in this way will find much which is not only instructive, but amusing as well, - some things, indeed, which would make a worthy theme for the Nation's satirical pen, which lately "did up" so well a certain institution in Tennessee. The first occasion for surprise the Catalogue-reader meets is, that, after the Faculty...
READERS of the Nation know that at Neophogen College great attention is paid to the "specialties," Etiquette and English. The catalogue of the "New Light Producing" College supplies the world with information regarding the forms of etiquette insisted upon at that "centre of refinement." There is also a publication called the College Pen, modest, as it is able, in which the students at Gallatin, Tenn., give to the world productions destined to show the results of their constant application to the study of our mother tongue. To give the readers of the Crimson an idea of the progress Neophogen...
Grows pale in the evening light and dies...
ACCORDING to the Tablet the new buildings "which will soon be called Trinity College" can be seen from all parts of the country. Surely Trinity's light is not to be hidden under a bushel. The Princetonian congratulates itself that it was not Colonel Higginson, but a Princeton man, who originated the idea of intercollegiate contests. The requiem of the Rowing Association is sung by the Brunonian: "Magnanimous Harvard clung to it to the last, as she was the first to enter it. Now, dazzled by the fancy of initiating a series of Oxford-Cambridge races, wherein if the glory...
...light gleaming in your room as you return across the Yard, to have some one to call to you or growl at you as you open the door, some one ready to laugh with you at your author's wit, or to swear with you at the blindness of a textbook, - all this certainly tends to make life sweet. The other day, when that worthy African continued for the space of five minutes to call down blessings from Heaven upon my head in return for my five-cent subscription to the missionary cause, could I, had there been...