Word: window
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Just as a famous singer like Jenny Lind has some songs which appeal only to the musically educated, but at the same time others which go to the heart of everybody. Sincerity is transparency to a higher light; that as a vase, when held against the window, discloses its flaws, so by this light our nature may show its imperfections. Here is ground on which atheists and believers may unite. For light is a relative term. The greatest sincerity will come from the greatest light and the height of sincerity will accord with the height of righteousness. For this highest...
...this volume possesses an especial interest for Harvard men because it contains witty and tender reminis cences of everything peculiar to Harvard life. Among the subjects are: Class Days, Goodies, Pocos, Digs, College Sports, Window Seats, The Annex, The College Pump, The Yard, The Faculty, Wellesley, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, The Bell, The Chapel, Jones, Examinations, The Bursar, John, Memorial Hall, Old Graduates, and something of Life, Love, Youth and Fate. The book will contain about two hundred pages, the productions of about seventy contributors from thirteen classes...
...that the New Year has brought nothing for us. For the first time in the history of the University has our Alma Mater gone into the extravagance of presenting her foster children with a Christmas present. Massachusetts 3 has been adorned with window shades, an extravagance which some conservatives may be ready to condemn, but which no former sufferer from Phoebus' rays will not hail with delight. Since the University has been ready to do so much for our comfort, the sanguine among us may hope to see plank-walks throughout the yard before the twentieth century dawns...
...seniors of the Trinity Medical College, Toronto, attacked the freshmen, Saturday, and threw some of them out of the window. One freshman had his collar bone broken. - N. Y. Tribune. Pleasant...
...Window to let to see the procession Saturday evening. The best place on the route; opposite the college library. Enquire at McNamee's book bindery...