Word: daylighted
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Since cock-crow and daylight have not been sufficient, the ghost must be dispersed, by the old device of hoax exposers; he must be confronted with self-comparisons, odious though they may be. First, in the Harvard scale, come the names of George Santayana, Percy McKaye, John Jay Chapman, Ed win Arlington Robinson, Robert Frost and Cale Young Rice. They, to be sure belong to the era before the ghost was raised; but they still manage to keep pace with the advancing generations. After the century mark stand such poets as Hermann Hagedorn. John Gould Fletcher, Arthur Davison Ficks...
...plan specified was of monumental character with two auditoriums holding two hundred students each and one large auditorium holding five hundred. On the second floor a great reading room for 400 students and a large stack room receiving the best possible daylight were required as well as several research libraries...
...course such a suggestion is vastly unpopular. Millions of citizens would take it as an intolerable personal grievance and an infringement of their rights to be excluded from voting because they thought Henry Ford invented the cotton gin, or that "daylight savings" was a kind of bank. Also it is doubtful whether any fair intelligence test for voters could be devised...
...University and Freshman crews left for Ithaca last night on the 8.35 train, daylight saving time, accompanied by Dr. Howe, Coach Herbert Haines, and a number of managers and substitutes. They will arrive at Cornell this morning and will row over the course on Lake Cayuga this afternoon, with an additional work-out tomorrow morning. The shells were sent ahead on Wednesday and will be at Ithaca when the crews arrive...
...romantic supposition thus thrown overboard, and "ghaieties, and ghoulies, and things that go bump in the nicht" relegated to the sphere of the harmless. If this goes on much longer, Poe will be regarded as hopelessly mediaeval, and night-time will resolve itself into a mere prosaic absence of daylight, and we shall all be carrying our own outfits of ghost-catchers. The ghost will become as rare as the bison, and practically-minded persons will rejoice...