Word: night
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...night watchman, Mr. Cheney, is to resign at the end of the present month the office he has so long and creditably filled, and the College will employ no nocturnal guardian in future...
...fully attended meeting of the Society, held at their rooms last Tuesday night, it was determined to request scientific communications from the Professors of the University, and that, furthermore, notice should be placed upon the college buildings, in advance, of those who would speak at each meeting, with, if possible, the subject of each lecture. This should be done, in order that members interested in different branches of Natural History could be informed of meetings at which their specialties would be discussed...
...rain must come from clouds, black and portentous," etc. The reader would here naturally expect some explanation, - what is the tablet? when was it? where was it? why and how did nature write? etc., - but no explanation is given. The writer hurries on, discovers that day is followed by night, stands beside the rivers Tigris and Euphrates, inspects the "remnant of Babylon," has a word for the Mede, another for the Persian, gets himself surrounded by the "tottering walls of the Coliseum," "hears" them crumble, notes, in passing, the destruction of Carthage, and so on, down through Alaric, Greece...
...attempt no eulogy of his character; all who remember the active part - and the pail of chemicals - he bore in the conflagrations which have illumined our recent skies, will need no further reminder of that sleepless being whom we have been used to seeing the last thing at night and the first in the morning...
...self-conceit which is said to belong to every young man of seventeen or thereabout. But this year we have had not even a "Bloody Monday," nor are we likely to witness any of the consequences which have usually followed the "rushes" and single encounters of that dread night. This long-desired result has been brought about, primarily, not by the efforts and regulations of the Faculty, - persevering and severe as they have been, - but by the change in the opinions of the students themselves, who, as the age of the entering classes has increased, and influenced, perhaps...