Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...trousers are becoming popular in South", is the enigmatical sentence contained in the item column of a recent number of the Yale News. whatever this mysterious utterance may mean, we must remonstrate with our esteemed contemporary for permitting such dangerous secrets to be thus rudely brought to the garish light of day in its columns. It is such things as these that fasten the sligma of indiscretion and irresponsibility upon the college press. The News has been indiscreet; let it reform...
...ascendancy that the ideas and the marked personality of Matthew Arnold has gained over the minds of the younger generation than the universal eagerness shown by the students of every American college of note, almost without exception, to see and listen to the great apostle of sweetness and light. Where arrangements have not been made for Mr. Arnold to lecture by the college or by the local authorities, it is noticeable that measures have been taken at almost all colleges by the students themselves to secure that privilege, as was the case first at Harvard. No suggestions have ever...
...would succeed as well as in the case of tobacco." Then follow several good pieces of advice on eating : "Regularity is important. Eat until satisfied, and thus avoid lunches. Let the amount of a meal bear some relation to future needs as well as to present appetite. Light conversation and gentle exercise promote digestion, but severe bodily or mental labor retards it. Avoid such labor just before and for at least an hour after a full meal. Eat slowly, masticate well." These and similar maxims are worth being learned by heart and many should profit by them...
...down. In marked contrast to this was the lack of union in the play of Harvard. A Harvard rusher in making a run was seldom backed up by anyone, and a very little passing was attempted. The tackling of the Princeton team was low and hard, but the light weight of the men sometimes prevented the immediate stopping of the rushers. Lamar, Baker and Kimball made some good runs for Princeton, Lamar especially showing himself a fine dodger. Harvard failed to fall on the ball well, and often lost it by a slipping under of a Princeton man. Kendall, Bonsal...
...Jersey men by a score of 26 points to 7. The weather was everything that could be desired and the grounds were in first rate condition at the time play was called. Harvard won the toss and chose the west side of the field, from which a light wind was blowing. From the kick-off advantage seemed to turn in Harvard's favor and soon Cowling made a try-at-goal from a fair catch. The kick was extremely difficult and the ball passed a few feet outside the posts. Shortly after another trial was made but the ball rebounded...