Word: shine
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Those who have in charge the lighting of the yard, with a childlike and beautiful faith that the moon would shine brightly through the heavy clouds that covered the sky last evening, did not light the yard lamps and the unfortunates who happened to venture out were left to stumble blindly through the mud and slush. "Economy is the road to wealth...
...much zest and enthusiasm as the boat race on the Thames. We trust that the spirit which has promted the University of Pennsylvania to put the "Archarnians" on the stage, merely lies dormant here, to awake at some future date refreshed and invigorated for its long rest, and shine with greater lustre than ever before. Meanwhile the students of the University of Pennsylvania have our best wishes for a complete success of their endeavor...
Amherst and Williams bid their flambeaus shine...
...inhabitants of Cambridgeport and to those of our own venerable, old, hoary Cambridge. All the happiness and gayety culminated when on Holmes' field the messengers arose from earth to carry the news of Harvard's gladness up through the night air to the clear ether above. Last night will shine as a bright spot on the already glowing tablets of our recollections of these memorable days in the university's existence...
...prizes of life, as they are called (whether worth the winning or not) are seldom obtained by the clever. A youth of this stamp takes the chief seat at a club or a dinner party, and sometimes obtains a butterfly reputation in literature, but he does not shine at the bar, he will never sit upon the bench, or arrive at eminence among the faculty, These positions are won by square jawed men, who can neither make nor read vers de societe, but who have the tenacity of a bull-terrier and the ambition of Lucifer. They are certainly offensive...