Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...outlook at present for a strong team seems good, though nothing definite can be ascertained till the men go to work on Holmes field. As the cage is used most of the afternoon by the 'varsity candidates, and men training with Mr. Clarkson, the freshmen take light general exercise with the chest weights, bumb-bells, vaulting bars, and then have a short run. Churchill and Hill, candidates for pitcher, under the instruction of Mr. Clarkson have made very considerable progress, and Bell's strained shoulder is much better, so that the prospects for a battery are brightening...
...opening anthem by the choir was Atwood's "Enter not into judgment," "The sun shall be no more thy light by day," by Woodward, "Nunc Dimittis," by H. O. Whiney, were also sung...
...result was a very pleasant evening. The committee which had charge of the social had arranged a musical and literary programme in which Messrs. Rice, Smith, Hayes and Dodge took part. The whole programme was a thoroughly enjoyable one, Mr. Smith's bass solo being especially pleasing. Light refreshments were served at the close of this programme, and the remainder of the evening was spent by the members, in conversation...
...much grumbling and dubious head-shaking at the issue. Yale, on the contrary, was highly elated at Harvard's adoption of the "professional" stroke. Her crew, be it said, was deemed so strong as to earn the appellation of the "Yale giants," while Harvard's was not only unusually light, but, with two exceptions, was composed of men who had never before sat in a 'varsity boat. Save with the brave and meager minority who believed in the new regime, up to a week before the race Yale's success was a foregone conclusion. The race, as one disappointed wearer...
Dechanel's "Natural Philosophy, Part IV.," Sound and Light...