Word: lights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their distrust and to substitute zest for lethargy. "Copey's" success has been reflected in the accomplishments of so many who passed under the low lintel of Hollis 15, and in the devotion which these men have always retained for him. They ask nothing better than that the light in the window on the top floor of Hollis Hall, which has been the signal to many generations of Harvard undergraduates that "Copey" is receiving his friends, will burn indefinitely and that even though retired from active service in the University. "Copey" will be "at home" to them until...
...learned world knew versatile Dr. Michelson as the first man who ever computed the size of a star, as winner of the Nobel Prize in physics (1907), as the man who fixed the standard length of a metre bar in terms of the wave length of cadmiun light. It was he who helped devise the Michelson-Morley experiment in interference of light, with bearing on the Einstein theory. But the learned world did not know him as a former naval officer, nor as an excellent violinist, nor as a keen tennis player, nor as an amateur of literature and drama...
These are the plays which, in the light of metropolitan criticism, seem most important...
...from birth to early manhood, and occasion is found to indicate how his ability and qualifications for his later position in life worked themselves out, giving a forecast of the line of his subsequent achievements. To overcome the difficulty of interpreting the early life of her hero in the light of his hypothetical fame as subsequently reached, the author hits upon the novel expedient of citing references from an imaginary biography of David Schuyler for her data. This has its drawbacks, inasmuch as David is represented as a young man in 1928 not to become prominent for some years...
...note of colour and its very short essays allow you time to straighten your tie before welcoming your caller. If this be faint praise, let it be said that the another and his publishers could hardly have intended the book for anything more than the lightest of light reading...