Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...deceit practised upon them by the bursar or auditor, while others think that the troubles arise through the auditor's lack of experience. We suggest that an expert, or an experienced committee, be appointed who shall investigate the matter thoroughly. The expense attending this course would be comparatively light, and the association would gladly bear it if all the facts of the case could be brought to light...
...WEATHER.WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 4, 1882, 1 A. M. For New England generally colder, partly cloudy weather and light snow, higher barometer, and northwest to northeast winds...
...somewhat chagrined. This was not the first instance of the kind. Quite an amusing accident befel one of the girls last fall. It was a freshman, who thought she would stay away from chapel one evening. By way of amusement she strolled through the corridor, and, seeing a bright light in a room, concluded to make a call. Two ladies were sitting by the table reading when our friend entered and exclaimed, "Hallo! didn't you go to chapel, either? It is great fun to 'cut,' I think." She talked on in school girl dialect for some time, until...
...said that nearly every woman in Russia, no matter what her rank, carries a cigarette case. Now and then the stranger is surprised by a pretty girl asking him for a light...
...This is too serious a question, sir, to make light of. You know that Harvard is a very bad place to send young men. My aunt stayed in Cambridge a little while last winter, and she told me that one afternoon, when she was riding in a horse-car, there was a student there so intoxicated that when a lady got in he stood up in front of her, and took his hat off and began to talk to her, and tried to make her take his seat; and she was a stranger to him too. In all the years...