Word: lightness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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After having waited for more than two hours, I at last heard approaching footsteps. The Professors were coming, all in a body, headed by Professors Alkali, with a calcium light fixed on his hat, to illumine the way. They were about to seat themselves around the table, when suddenly the calcium light gave out and left them in the dark. The Secretary, attempting to light the gas, found to his amazement that it had been turned off. Consternation spread over all. After some deliberation, Professor Lever suddenly recollected that he had in his pocket a tallow candle, which he kept...
...Wednesday last the sad news of the death of one of Harvard's noblest sons was sent over the country from Washington. Any tribute that we could pay to his integrity, industry, and ability would be quite uncalled for in the light of his world-wide fame. He graduated in 1830, without a high rank in his class, having devoted his time, it is said, to hard reading instead of the required work of the College course. He was a member of the Hasty Pudding and Porcellian Clubs; and as one of his classmates has said, all that distinguished...
...their notice, that even the dullest could not help correcting them. The College has already taken this matter in hand, as is proved by its requiring the candidates for admission to write short essays at their examination; but it is feared that these requirements, unless carefully kept in the light by those who desire a change in the present system, may pass into as dark a shadow as that which has fallen upon the requisitions in English reading. These entrance examinations might furnish a basis on which to divide the class into several sections, which should differ from each other...
...horse was spirited, but light...
...upon. It was most natural for Rembrandt, who lived and died in Holland, to depict what he had before him, and that was a government by the people. In this truly superb impression we have Christ at the height of his fame with the people, represented somewhat in the light of a demagogue. He is in the midst of a group of the sick, who seek in different ways to be healed by him. Next him, on the left, we have a most realistic group. A mother, old, haggard, and ugly, clasps her hands in despairing supplication to Christ that...