Word: lightness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Meanwhile, R.'s face was a study. At last a light broke upon him, he saw that she had mistaken his class, and resolved to carry on the joke, so replied with due solemnity...
...several college papers and public periodicals have misconstrued the action taken by Harvard with reference to sending a crew to England, and have placed the college in a false light, it may be well to state the position Captain Bancroft has taken...
...students who room in College, that the late afternoon mail should be delivered to them. We have asked at the post-office why the students are less privileged in the matter than the people of Cambridge, and have found out that it is because the entries are not lighted. The Bursar tells us that the amount of matter that usually comes by the half past five mail seemed to make it scarcely worth while for the college to employ men to light the entries, but that it would be done if the desire was general among the students. Holyoke...
...Present, - filled with glistening beams of light...
...asked how much they charge for doing the work of tenants, to reply "fifteen dollars a term," which naturally sounds somewhat lower than the janitor's price; but which, taken in connection with the fact that there are two terms in each year, places the subject in a different light. I have written this simply from a spirit of justice, and I must candidly admit that my treatment at the hands of janitors has been such as to warrant my preference for them over scouts, while my work has been better done...