Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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While the moon at night, with its varying light...
...kind consideration of a complaint we made not long ago gives us some hope that we shall not be disregarded in asking once more for a light at the entrance of Weld...
...expressed in a cordial way our sympathy with the Glee Club, in regard to the prohibition placed upon it. That sympathy, however, we cannot extend to its refusal to sing at prayers. If intended as revenge, the action must, on second thought, appear petty and childish, and in whatever light we regard it, we cannot but think that it is based on an entirely false notion of the Person to whom hymns are addressed...
...Scriptures twice a day, that he shall be ready to give such an account of his proficiency therein, both in Theoretticall observations of the Language, and Logick, and in Practicall and spirituall truths, as his Tutor shall require, according to his ability; seeing the entrance of the word giveth light, it giveth understanding to the simple, Psalm. 119. 130.' By the 'Laws, Liberties and Orders of Harvard College,' which in the years 1642 - 1646 were 'published to the scholars for the perpetual preservation of their welfare and government,' and which remained in force during the seventeenth century, it is prescribed...
...reason for these decisions is, as we understand it, this: That students, by demanding money for their performances, put themselves in the light of professionals before the public, and thereby lower their own dignity and that of the College. Parents may thus be deterred from sending their sons to Harvard, and the high tone of the University lost. It is not likely that any large number regard our entertainments as hurtful in themselves...