Word: argent
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...appearance marks a new era in college decorative art. Considered from the standpoint of heraldry the new shingle is grand. On a field (blanc), seme with cuspidores (avgent), is displayed a what-is-it (purpure). This has as supporters two schooners, remplis. Above appears the crest, - a casque (argent), which seems to have some connection with the schooners beneath. Below the main device is found a chestnut (brun), which is bound with chains, evidently to prevent its being given away. The colors employed exhaust the resources of the spectrum, and makes this coat of arms rival the traditional coat...
...Gules); three open books (Argent) edges, covers clasps (Or), on the books the letters Ve-ri-tas (Sable). The seal contains a shield with the arms placed on a circular field (Or) on which the words Christo et Ecclesiae (Azure), and around the words Sigilium Academiae Harvardianae...
...painful to the eye of the conscientious student. It is bad enough to be summoned, but worse when that summons is stamped with a seal which certainly approaches more meanly the emblem of Yale than that of Harvard. We all know that the seal should bear three books, argent, upon a field, rules, the two upper volumes being separated from the lower by a chevronel, argent But, alas for our time-honored crimson, the shield upon the present seal flaunts before us a field, azure, upon which the three venerable duodecimo volumes seem strangely ill at ease...
...arrows - aw - For braces - aw - pardon me, supports, I - aw - would have on one side - aw - the governor holding out his purse to me, and - aw - on the other a tandem, a tiger, and a dogcart with my monogram on the side - aw - For a motto, 'L'argent et I'amour sans travail...