Word: sidelighting
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...presentation, and was innaugurated by the Harvard Debating Council in the preliminary debates last week, with rather interesting results. The audience at the Sophomore-Freshman debate by a ratio of 3 to 1 voted for the affirmative, confirming the unanimous decision of the judges and throwing a wholly unexpected sidelight on student opinion with regard to intercollegiate football. It is in the light of last week's decision that the vote of tonight's audience will be interesting...
...trouble with Mr. Gross's complaint is chiefly that he sought in the editorial misnamed perhaps, 'Spiritism,' a complete discussion of the subject. In my view the editorial is but a sidelight reflecting what it considers to be a worthy stand right or wrong taken in opposition to the doctrines of Mr. Lodge. S. N. STEVENS...
...seems to have put a good deal of his own charming personality into the tale, and we often feel that we are by his side. From the very first sentence, which begins: "Flash! snapped the telegraph operator--," we feel the thrill of the young journalist. As a sidelight on the history of the great European struggle, the book is also valuable. He deals with the trials and tribulations of the various peoples in a very sane and sympathetic manner. The book contains a number of illustrations, most of which show interesting documents collected by the author...
...always interesting to have a sidelight thrown on the effect which a great political event has on a small community or on an individual living in it. In this way the following letter written by a Harvard student on "Sept'br ye 23d 1777" well portrays some of the effects of the Revolution on his mind and on the college community at large. He complains bitterly of the rise of prices. After a very short "family" sentence he goes on to say: "Wood is but twenty dollars pr. cord, the corporation meet to-morrow to determine upon a vacation...