Word: moons
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: - I do not wish to appear in the light of a faultfinder, but it seems to me that the college authorities are a little too parsimonius in the matter of lighting the college yard and buildings. Every evening that the moon is expected to appear, the lamps in the yard are left unlit. Now it very frequently happens that a rain or snow storm comes up, when the moon is entirely hidden, and the belated wanderer is left to feel his way through the slush or mud in the yard as best he may, trusting...
This evening Mr. Leonidas LaCenci Hamilton, M. A. will lecture in Lyceum Hall. Subject: "The Mechanical movements of the Moon and tides explained by impact or pressure...
...then? Well, in the first place he generally "rags something less than 99 per cent., but he does not play the "Advocate's" little poker game. No. He wears glasses. Not dude glasses, nor goggles, nor the dapper gold-bowed spectacles, but great round moon-eyed glasses, glasses that would stew the brain of an ordinary man. And then he reads a little, you know. He is up with the lark; he is up with the bat; in fact he is never down. But speaking of being down, I remember a grind who was down once. He was making...
...very clear that the moon and the college are not the best of friends. As is known to us all, the two have undertaken to light the yard ever since Harvard was first established. The result of this double contract is that at times, during certain nights of each month, the yard is not lighted. Whose fault is it? The moon is controlled by certain inevitable laws; for example, it has certain nights for setting early, and certain nights also for rising late; and again it is quite unable to shine through heavy clouds. This leads to the conclusion that...
BIJOU THEATRE.- Harrison and Gourlay, in "Skipped by the Light of the Moon." Performance...