Word: torch
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...their interior, pictures of the yard, and all the other scenes so well known to us. Nor are the students themselves neglected. There is a view of Memorial in full operation, of a base-ball game on Holmes, and of the Harvard Princeton foot-ball game on Jarvis. The torch-light procession also is depicted accurately and strikingly, and the way we go to prayers is revealed in a manner which exposes the barbarity of the Overseers' character in its true light. Many other illustrations are given which are both amusing and instructive. There are scenes from class...
...will be illustrated by stereopticon views. Among the views will be the interior of the library, interior of Memorial at lunch time, an instantaneous picture of the men running to chapel just as the last notes of the bell are ringing out, several portraits of participants in the torch light procession, and many other pictures equally interesting. Judging from the careful preparation, we think the lecture will be of great interest to us all here at Harvard, and even more so to those who are not as well acquainted with Harvard, and its surroundings, as are the students. The enterprise...
...first object that meets our eye is a black, battered beaten, Brimless beaver with the magic legend upon it, H. '85, Below the hat is suspended a bottle, a cologne bottle we conjecture. About the broken handles of the wreck of what once might have been a campaign torch are tied three filthy rags. What visions these symbols conjured up! "Is he, is he dead?" I murmur. "Oh, no, the faculty forbade-." Here we hear a smothered yelping as of some one in pain, but are reassured, the somewhat astonished, to hear that "it is only my pup that...
...them during the college term. Some say that there is nothing to photograph during the winter, but I think they are wrong. Let us see what we can do. During the last week I "took" at least eight or ten fellows in my room; some in their torch-light uniforms, some in fancy dress, and some in their ordinary clothes. I also got a good picture of the ruins of the car stable after the recent fire, and Thanksgiving day I took two very amusing instantaneous photographs of the foot ball game played by the Memorial waiters. Indeed, instead...
...more worth and beauty, if not of more interest. Bric-a-brac of every sort, photo, paintings and so on, adorn the walls, which are literally covered from ceiling to wainscoting. Among them a piece made from the uniform worn on November 3, a wonderful combination of plug hat, torch, uniform and "black bottle...