Word: skies
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Doubtless many students noticed the brilliant ray of red light that illumined the sky on Monday evening, and not a few probably took it for a meteor. It was occasioned by a fire in Watertown, but so far there has been no explanation of this peculiar reflection...
Nothing could better show that examinations are now upon us than the yard windows, late at night. Ordinarily the various dormitories stand out against the sky like great masses of gloom. relieved by only an occasional light; now the rooms whose darkened windows show that their occupants are not grinding, are the exceptions rather than the rule...
...footers of stalwart build, one of whom was clad in a gorgeous crimson rowing jersey, and the other in a loose flannel shirt. The balance of the men were of medium build, gradually dwindling down to the small but active full-back of the blues, gay in sky-blue campaign blouse and skull cap. There was an apparent lack of canvas jackets, but the increasing demand for those articles on account of the late order of the committee on athletics had depleted the home market, and the players had to content themselves with flannel shirts of various hues...
...rumored that the reason why John Harvard sits "gazing into the We stern sky," as the orator says, is in order to escape the odors arising in the Eastern sky from the vicinity of Memorial...
...north of the star Beta, in constellation Pegasus, having a tail about half a degree long, and slow eastward motion; about R. A. 22h. 50m., about N. Dec. 29. This is the first comet of the year, and promises to be a conspicuous object in the western sky...