Word: sundown
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...commemorate Paul Revere's ride, lanterns were suspended from several of the Cambridge church towers last Monday evening. The bells were also rung soon after sundown...
...library is now close at a half hour before sundown. A line of disgusted men might have been seen turning away yesterday at half past three, as sundown was technically at four. One ingenious person is said to keep an alarm clock in his room so as to get up early enough before the library closes...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSOND:-The old question is coming up again. Yes! It is the one about lighting the library. In all seriousness, why must the library be closed every day at sundown? The only danger of fire attending any attempt to light it can now be avoided by the use of the new illuminator, electricity. The expense of introducing this would, to be sure, be large; but the need for the improvement is certainly great enough to justify the college in an effort to raise the necessary means...
...appeared not long ago in the New York Times, wherein is manifested a spirit which would do credit to Cotton Mather himself. The Faculty of Dartmouth might, of course, if it chose, prohibit its students from wearing plaid suits and high collars, electing Spanish, or eating Limburger cheese after sundown, and a sensible person would only smile and draw his own private conclusions as to the sanity of that august body; but when a respectable journal, making comments on Harvard and Yale, sets itself up as champion of such an inane course as refusing college aid to such students...
...think we get half the pleasure we might, because we do not think of looking for beauty in these well-known scenes, although Mr. James R. Lowell says, "I have seen within a mile of home effects of color as lovely as any irridescence of the Silberdown after sundown...