Word: brightness
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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...Class Day and is natural and realistic. The Almanac is more carefully drawn than heretofore, and contains more humor. Of the two editorials on Class Day, the first is rather serious, while the second is rollicking and more in the Lampoon style. The verse and small jokes are as bright as usual, but a short poem entitled "How to Propose" is far above the average...
...Bright though our memories on the dead should be, when we think of the qualities that made them what they were, there are times when to many these thoughts can only bring sadness. The early days of the war were full of doubt and terrible anxiety for all; and as the struggle went on, the suffering and bloodshed increased month by month. Through it all, the men who had left Harvard to join the army were found wherever courage and patriotism were most needed. The spirit they showed at that time exists in no less measure today...
...current number of the Advocate is so deserving of favorable mention as the editorial. It is a well phrased exposition on the use of local color in College stories, and is of interest to the large number of students contributing fiction to the College magazines. The stories are bright and entertaining; the verse musical, though somewhat conventional and the book reviews are as adequate as could be expected...
...Taylor '01, who wrote the book of the play, has followed a rather more serious vein than is usually found in theatricals of this kind. The music, however, is very bright and catchy, the dances are full of life, and the choruses keep together and show careful training. The acting is clever for the most part, being remarkably natural and unstilted...
...very simple, consisting merely of a contrivance for allowing the light to shine through a small hole to the plate. A secondary and more convenient standard will be formed by using a lens in connection with the other apparatus. This will give a light one hundred times as bright as that in the simpler instrument. By means of this same device, the relative brightness of the different stars and planets will also be obtained. The visular comparative brilliancy has already been well ascertained by astronomers, but their comparative brightness for photographic work is not accurately known...