Word: lighted
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...Professor at last broke the silence. "I could sleep no more that night: I had a repelling horror of the thought, - a fear lest I might dream again. I sat there till the cold light of dawn broadened in the east, and the moon slowly whitened away to nothingness. Then I dressed myself, and, stepping out upon the upper balcony, watched the sunrise. As the colors warmed and deepened on the hills, and the broad ocean sparkled and shimmered, - so unlike that ghostly moon-swept sea of my dream, - this sense of oppression grew less vehement, as all such feelings...
...blue, their light may some time change...
...purple light of the dying...
POOR "Lampy" has gone out, and all this year we have been in darkness, with the exception of a few rays of light from the College press. But at last the Bursar has come to the rescue and made another "extensive improvement." Lamps have been placed on nearly all the College buildings. What a blessing, and at the same time a curse. Henceforth the College will be one blaze of light. No more gas will be consumed in our rooms: the light from outside will be sufficient. Does the Bursar consider that in this way our enormous gas bills will...
...unless interrupted, so the effect would be most disastrous. Harvard will soon become one vast lunatic asylum. Egyptian darkness will be blessed with as great earnestness as Pharoah cursed it. College men have always shown a great aversion to lamp-posts, particularly those on the bridge, and make light of putting out the glass lights when the gas lights have been put out; but, on the other hand, have shown a great love for "Lampy," whose bright light is far more brilliant even than Edison's Electric Light. Therefore let us earnestly seek for the return of "Lampy" and then...