Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Betting is put in a new light to many of us by Mr. Wendell's article, and without fear of becoming prudish, we can join with him and say that our sports would be conducted more honorably if we could eradicate the betting factor. The "sporting element" here no doubt does our athletics and our moral tone serious evil and it is right that an outcry should be made against it. Men will make wagers until doomsday, it may be urged, but still when we appreciate that the custom is injuring our athletic career we are culpable...
...have heard that our editorial of Monday on the social question which is before the college, has been termed ambiguous. We had no idea that the plain statements contained in that editorial would be viewed in any such light, and we must confess that such lack of wit is only another argument for the position we have taken. It shows that there are a few men here who are so absorbed in the old regime that they cannot even appreciate that changes are taking place, much less understand the significance of those changes. To those who are still...
...Boston Bridge" are the opening verses of the number and are very happily conceived. "Jerusha Howe," spinster, is a good story, and stands in interesting contrast with "Roses and Cypress" in the last Advocate by the same author. In both stories the light coquetry and vanity of a pretty young girl brings on the death of her lover. This motive, always a fascinating one, is as well brought out in the hills up here in our bleak New England during the Revolution as it was in the warm sun of the Riviera. A bright poem entitled "Letters" follows this...
...flush of light smiles on our eyes...
Sumner Prize Dissertation. "The experience of the past half-century in the light it throws upon the possible general resort to arbitration as a substitute for war." Mr. Marland Cogwell Hobbs. Sever...