Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Light-weight sparring - W. H, Page, '83; H. M. Ayars, '86; F. S. Parker, '86; W. A. Stebbins...
...learned professor once gave the following illustration of his thesis: "The velocity of sound, compared with that of light, is so little that, for instance, if you should be shot, you would not hear the sound until you had been dead some time...
...recent number of the Oxford Magazine asks the question: "How comes it that we have so few men in Oxford who are able to lead, who attract students to the university by their reputation, and send them from the university inspired with new motives and illumined with new light?" This question in reference to Harvard cannot fail to suggest many thoughts on the various features of university life at Harvard. At first sight a Harvard student will indignantly exclaim that the question does not apply to Harvard; that we have plenty of men here who do lead...
...last year's victory of twenty lengths. The odds are again on the oarsmen of the Isis; partly, no doubt, because they have once more as stroke Mr. L. R. West of Christ Church, who occupied the same position in Oxford's victories of 1880 and '81. The light-blue has a heavy and powerful crew, of whom much is expected, though thus far their stroke is considered hardly equal to that of their competitors. The race is admitted, however, to be a doubtful one, and, with good weather, it will doubtless be attended by an enormous crowd of spectators...
...hands of good players, which is as easily attained in rackets of larger heads. The new styles have reached the other extreme, being of a larger size than has appeared before, and strong wrists will be necessary to successfully play with these, for if they are made of light weight the material will have to be thin, and consequently cannot resist with ease a volley or swift serve. To be of use they ought to weigh at least 141/2 oz., which is heavier than we are accustomed to. However, to a man who can wield easily a heavy racket, these...