Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...NOUGAT.P. S. One of the girls has just read this over, and she said that I had better tell you not to let it drop on anything because it is so heavy it might break something. I don't see what she means, for I wrote it on very light paper...
...known among his set as "old Green," and so when the Heraldic Bureau were asked to "find" his family escutcheon they suggested that he take the name of Verdantique. The coat-of-arms, by the way, is quite peculiar and characteristic - uncomfortably so, Miss Winnie thinks. There is a light-green barrel of petroleum surmounted by a bull which knowingly winks his right eye; one hoof is raised to the side of the nose for some unaccountable reason - probably wants to scratch it. The petition has evidently been carefully sealed in an envelope that seems to have been opened...
...direct our attention to our own freshman crew, and we feel justified in speaking plainly of its work in your columns, since the freshman race with Columbia is eagerly watched by all those interested in freshman athletics, and inasmuch as this race is considered in nearly the same light by the university in general as the Yale-Harvard 'Varsity race. We have noticed lately, we are sorry to say, that a spirit of indifference as to the welfare and success of the crew has pervaded its members. They have certainly displayed much laxness lately in their practice rows - even failing...
...Harvard advertising sheets as to Yale's wit, of which they claim our Wednesday number is the professed exponent. Evidently their disciplined memories do not recall what we declared to be our object at the outset. We said that we should endeavor to furnish pieces of a light and entertaining nature. They persist in looking for 'funny' articles - 'side-splitters' is their other euphonious name for it." The News adds that it is content to let the matter rest where it is, "for to our taste - depraved probably - light sketches are as satisfactory pabulum as warmed-over witty stories...
...evening the last of the course of four lectures will be delivered by Prof. Norton on the Assos expedition, with accompanying stereopticon views. Too few of us know anything about this first of American archaeological expeditions, which has been so successful within the last year, and has brought to light so much of interest to lovers of Grecian antiquities, upon which subject Prof. Norton is of course sure to entertain and instruct an audience...