Word: lights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Oration, the dancing, even the confetti battles in the Stadium have their antecedents in the Dark Ages of the College. The original tree was the "Liberty" or "Rebellion" tree which stood in front of Hollis and around which the riotous sophomores of "Rebelliad" notoriety circled in the light of the bonfire. The spread might be said to antedate the famous ban on "plum cake" in 1693. For many a year Harvard graduating classes planted Ivy shoots in the unpropitious soil of the Yard. Dancing on the green was a favorite pastime, and the confetti battle is an indirect by-product...
...June 18--With only three days before the race with Yale Coach E. J. Brown '96, put the first University eight through light drills both in the morning and afternoon...
...that the defaulter sometimes continues to hold a respected position, or even to be an active church member. Such a contradiction is certainly not always, and from the outset, conscious hypocrisy. There has been a gradual numbring of moral sensibility, a growing blindness of the soul, and when the light of such a man is darkness, how great is that darkness...
...Chapel, the words of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount, "if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness." But President Lowell made opening acknowledgement of the verity that what seems right at one time and meets the apparent approval of the conscience, "the light of the body" that is the eye, often leads to results unforeseen, undesired, and incompatible with the aims of the individual...
...standard, of holding steadfastly to the judgment of the conscience he sums up in the sentence, "just an exact analysis of self-deception, exact attempt in excuse conduct less than the best tends in so far to dull the vision so every action that is done because a clear light shows that it is the right thing to do lends to increase the light, to sharpen the audience of perception between right and wrong, and thereby to strongthen character...