Word: sunlights
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...clad and suave Harvard student now dines in a splendid cathedral room sixty feet broad by one hundred and forty-nine feet long and measuring eighty feet to the roof. The students' wants are attended to by colored waiters, who can always be bribed by a little douceur. The sunlight falls through 'storied windows richly dight,' and stains with Iris the snowy linen of fifty tables. On six courses dines the aesthetic Harvard man; and he often feels disposed to grumble at destiny if his pocket-book will not permit him to indulge in such extras as fresh salmon, straw...
...Boston and its suburbs enjoys, or suffers, a general vacation. Few, therefore, of the lovers and pilgrims of art are aware even of its existence. A trip, made even in a Cambridge horse-car, will be well rewarded by a view of the window through whose mellow tints the sunlight filters into the great dining hall of the university. Here assemble, three times a day, hundreds of young men to be fed with bread and meat, and nowhere could this noble conception have a deeper, a better influence than in this place, where it glows a perfect feast of colors...
...gauze the soft skin sunlight made...
...sunlight, when the day was ending...
...twilight follow'd hard the trailing sunlight...