Word: light
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Dates: during 1910-1910
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...scholar, the athlete, and the litterateur are all members of the new Council; but where, in the parlance of the newspapers, do the "common people" come in? Here is X, an able fellow, who is considered too much an ass to make the CRIMSON; and there is Y, too light for an "H," too prosaic for the Monthly, and too meagre in actual attainment for the Phi Beta Kappa. They are men of ideas, and (which is quite as important) leisure As graduates, X may be President of the United States and Y the head of a railroad-for such...
...academic year will be held in the Union this evening. Invitations have been sent to members of the faculties, governing boards, visiting committees, and the officers of administration of the University and Radcliffe. The patronesses will receive in the Living Room at 9 o'clock. After the reception a light supper will be served in the Dining Room, followed by dancing until midnight...
...Progress of Mrs. Alexander" differs in three particulars from the plays that the Dramatic Club has acted hitherto. It is a light and satirical comedy of the present hour; it has its local interest and entertainment, since the longest and the most amusing of the three acts passes in a Boston drawing room at the meeting of a Boston club; and it has been written by a student of Radcliffe. It will be the first long comedy and the first play by a woman that the club has acted. It is, besides, a piece actually written by a student...
With Mrs. Smith go a little company of lightly sketched, diversified, and amusing personages: her husband who provides the money for this social pilgrimage and takes the right of free comment upon it for his compensation; her secretaries, a well contrasted Boston youth of the aether and a western girl of less rarified atmosphere; the Russian prince, exotic and amorous, that she gathers into her train; women of Breezeboro, women of Newport, women of Boston--aesthetic, intellectual, philanthropic, or "merely" social; and finally, entertaining "specimens" of the "younger set" of society in Boston and of the University in Cambridge...
...knowledge of what the new rules demand. Very little real football was tried, the work being experimental and arranged in such a way that coaches as well as players learned much. On September 19, practice began in Cambridge and was held both morning and afternoon. The work was light, consisting only of rudimentary drill until a few days before the Bates game, when the first scrimmage was held. For the last month or so, the work has been almost entirely secret...