Word: lightness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...class championship series was played on Jarvis yesterday afternoon. The seniors beat the sophomores by a score of 7 to 6. The game was very close throughout, though Ninety-one had the lead for seven innings. McPherson and Wood were both very effective and the batting very light. The men on both nines played well though several showed the lack of practice. The features of the game were the difficult running catches of Wood and Crosby. The batting was weak and the base running sometimes careless. Very fine playing was made difficult by the cold wind, nevertheless the game...
...advantages for this work at Harvard, than is possessed by any college or university in the country. They tell what those who have investigated the matter know to be true without the shadow of doubt, but the more we can emphaslze these facts and present Harvard in her true light, the better, and surely this report speaks with strong emphasis...
...understand the nobleness of their lives, but we cannot really know the broadness of the vista which opens before them if we be not ourselves alive. If we are to understand the immortality of the soul we must have it. And after attaining it, we must light others to this way of life, this undying and eternal existence...
...with anything but pleasure that we feel obliged to call attention to the present condition of the Pierian Sodality. The men who are at present the managers of the Pierian do not perhaps understand that a responsibility of no light weight rests on their shoulders, and that in their official capacity they owe it to the university to bring the society back to its former position among Harvard musical organizations. The managers, however, cannot be entirely responsible for the present degenerate condition of the Society in view of the fact that the members themselves have lost all interest...
...buoyancy. The bracing of the boat is the feature of particular interest, it being a new departure in shell building. A chain of unbroken iron bracing runs from the stroke clear forward to number one thus giving great stiffness, and at the same the braces have been made as light as practicable in order not to weight the boat too much. The slides are inclined so as to require the minimum exertion on the recover; in fact everything possible has been done to make the boat speedy and comfortable. The shores, rowlocks and other appliances are all of the latest...