Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...students a trivial matter to pursue any regular course of voice instruction and the natural result is that for several years the public speaking has been as a rule execrable. The speaking at commencement would disgrace any other college than that one which so proudly holds such matters light. When to an immature paper, often hastily prepared, is added glaring defeats of voice and manner, in its presentation, there is hardly cause for surprise that the character of the commencement speaking offers an admirable opportunity to those who wish to criticise. As a rule the men who are selected...
...Pennsylvania class crews have begun training under the coaching of Ellis Ward. There are six crews in all, four academic and two medical. The academic crews are unusually light, '87 averaging 157; '88, 149; '86, 142 and '90, 138 pounds...
...trifle coarse. The story, as told, is not a thing complete in it self; it is rather a glimpse of what goes on around us, as if the clouds had parted for an instant, and shown us some of the painful, realities of life. This sudden flash of light is what one wants; out we want it so to strike upon the retina as to give us a distinct, forceful picture, not a mere jumble like the images of a kaleidoscope. Besides these prose works the number contains two poems which are not very good. Mr. Sanford's sonnet...
...will of the late benefactor of our University almost one-half of his estate is given to the college library. That it should have occurred to the minds of many of the students that now it is possible to light Gore Hall in the evening shows no mark of indecent haste. We shall not therefore consider that the question of lighting the library by means of the recent bequest is an unfit one for our columns...
Bowdoin's new gymnasium is lighted with electric light and is heated by steam...