Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...from Dr. F. G. Peabody, Mr. Charles W. Birtwell, P. M. Hubbard '98, the treasurer of the Union, and a number of workingmen. Letters will also be read from Professor Norton, Col. Higginson, Mayor Sortwell of Cambridge, and other invited guests. There will be vocal and instrumental music and light refreshments will be served...
...When Love Laughs," by Tom Hall. Herrick and Co., New York. This dainty little volume contains verses in a light vein, intended, as the author says, for busy people who have not the time to create fancies for themselves. If the purpose alone be considered, the book might be called successful. The verses are written in an offhand manner, with sometimes careless metre. The point usually turns on some modern "gag," but some of the verses touch a serious chord, while many have a note of sweetness...
LOST.- Will the man who took the light overcoat from the second table down stairs at Leavitt and Peirce's last Friday night please return...
...assembled to discuss a question of great moment to the human race. The social question is puzzling the minds of statesmen all over the world. I do not come here claiming to have found a solution for these problems, but to suggest a light that shall show the way out. Every where the growth of Christianity has been a steady progress toward freedom. The essential beauty of civilization is charity. Freedom is the essential thing of civilization. Now freedom has brought no more substantial result than the substitution of free labor for slave. Nevertheless the industrial system based upon freedom...
...question we must discuss is first, to state the nature of the industrial problem and then see if we can find any light to solve that problem. The industrial problem now is the labor problem. Can the problem of recompense to labor be solved peaceably? It can be in charity, as the Pope says, and in charity alone. Not charity in the sense of alms-giving. It is the charity, that teaches us to love our neighbor as ourselves. Justice is the only enduring end to peace. Thus our problem is the discovery of the true principle of justice...