Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...large number of men are trying for the junior crew. As yet no exercise has been taken, except at the chest-weights and with the light dumb-bells, but in a few days the candidates will begin work on machines. Yesterday afternoon the following men were at the gymnasium with Capt. Adams: Baldwin, Blossom, Homans, Cabot, Garrison, Page, Peale, Gleason, Carpenter, Appleton, Hervey and Davis...
...library authorities also inform us of the significant fact that the bulk of the volumes circulated in the library are not light, useless novels and romances, but works of solid learning and lasting value...
...chapel pulpit was occupied last evening by Dr. Newman Smyth, D. D., of New Haven. He chose his text from John 8:44; "He stood not in the light because there was no light in him." The truth of these words goes straight to the moral core of things; it brings into light a vital aspect of life which we are apt to overlook. Our universe is a truthful, a moral, a Christian universe, and no one can stand in it who is not at least honest, and virtuous, and Christlike. No man can stand in the truth who says...
...city of New York men were uniformly light, and McElven, the anchor, the smallest and slightest of the four. The Columbia men were middle-weight. At the sound of the pistol, Both teams fell like lead to the floor, with Columbia slightly in the advantage. For an instant the red ribbon at the middle of the rope failed to budge, and then it just peered out of the snap on the Columbia side. At the end of the first minute Columbia had just about half an inch, and, although the City of New York's boys pulled sturdily, and their...
...Pennsylvanian remarks editorially: "Although in the Harvard-Pennsylvania contest we scarcely predicted a home victory, yet we did believe that Pennsylvania would score and make the game a brilliant and close one. As it was, our team played a good game, but their light - weight and bad initial policy counted against them, and they were fairly and squarely beaten...