Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...WRITER in the last Advocate kindly forestalls the last trump, and sits in judgment upon the Harvard student. We had expected light weight, but were surprised at total depravity. The Harvard student is reduced to a pygmy in the presence of the heroic figure that impersonates with that author the sublimed and etherealized student. Mental indifference and moral baseness furnish the lighter portions of the picture, for which fine clothes and cigarettes afford a sombre background. We recognize the tenderness with which he has touched off our little weaknesses as flowing from that culture which is most "sympathetic with every...
...when it is impossible for a man to study to advantage unless he feels entirely free from chance of interruption. Considered as it is at present, it would require years of use to make "sporting the oak" a custom here, but were it considered and accepted in the same light as it is in English Universities, we think it would soon gain ground and favor. There would then be but little difficulty in establishing a custom of which many always, and all at times, have felt the need...
With a vague, uncertain light...
Wanders o'er the path of light...
...ethereal light is mingling...