Word: lightness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...tree. "Teas" then followed, and occupied the time until 8 o'clock, when dancing began at Memorial Hall. The Glee Club sang from the steps of Holworthy about 9 P. M., and the "real college songs" were enjoyed by the hundreds of visitors who were walking under the rosy light of the Chinese lanterns...
...Cornell Review this month is "weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable." All the articles are heavy and uninteresting. Our advice to the Editors is, to copy the Yale Lit. and give more light reading...
...number of the Yale Lit. is by far the best of our exchanges this week, and is really excellent. The leader on "Some Books" is well written and contains much sound common-sense. "The Light-Keeper's Story" is an interesting and thrilling tale, and altogether a very creditable production. Want of space prevents us from noticing the other articles, but they are all good. The only criticism we have to make on the Lit. is the insertion of so many baseball scores and so much society news. Why not leave such things as these for the Courant and Record...
...Nicolas, who has made a literal translation into French, has given a mystical meaning to many of the voluptuous lines of the original; but the English poetical translation by Edward Fitzgerald, which is considered in every way the better, shows the old Persian in the light of an Epicurean and a "Materialist...
From cabin-door outstreams the light...